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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Contents

  • The Text of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) (1893)
  • A Note to the Text
  • Backgrounds and Sources
  • New York City Locales Mentioned in Maggie
  • Map of Lower Manhattan
  • Charles Loring Brace, From The Dangerous Classes of New York
  • Reverend Thomas De Witt Talmage
    • From The Evil Beast
    • From The Night Sides of City Life
  • Jacob Riis, From How the Other Half Lives
    • From The Children of the Poor
  • Benjamin Orange Flower, From Civilization’s Inferno
  • Lars A!hnebrink, [Zola as Literary Model for Maggie]
  • Marcus Cunliff, Stephen Crane and the American Backround of Maggie
  • Thomas A. Gullason, [A Minister, a Social Reformer, and Maggie]
  • David Fitelson, Stephen Crane’s Maggie and Darwinism
  • Daniel Aaron, Howells’ "Maggie"
  • Eric Solomon, [Maggie and the Parody of Popular Fiction]
  • The Author and the Novel
  • BIRTH NOTICES, LETTERS, AND INSCRIPTIONS: THE 1893 Maggie
    • Frank W. Noxon, The Real Stephen Crane
    • Willis Fletcher Johnson, The Launching of Stephen Crane
    • Stephen Crane, Howells Discussed at Avon-by-the-Sea
      The Broken-Down Van
      Summer Dwellers at Asbury Park and Their Doings
      Letters and Inscriptions
  • REBIRTH AND REVISIONS: THE 1893 Maggie
    • Stephen Crane, Letters
  • Contemporary Reviews
  • AMERICAN REVIEWS: 1893
    • From the Port Jervis [New York] Union
    • Hamlin Garland, An Ambitious French Novel and A Modest American Story
    • The Author-Artist Will Soon Issue a Book — Stephen Crane’s "Maggie"
    • From The Bookman [New York]
    • Chelifer [Rupert Hughes], The Justification of Slum Stories
  • AMERICAN REVIEWS: 1896
    • From the New York Tribune
    • From The Nation
    • Frank Norris, Stephen Crane’s Stories of Life in the Slums: Maggie and George’s Mother
    • Edward Bright, A Melodrama of the Streets
    • William Dean Howells, New York Low Life in Fiction
  • ENGLISH REVIEWS: 1896
    • From The Bookman [London]
    • From The Athenaeum
    • H.G. Wells, Another View of "Maggie"
    • Novels of American Life
  • Criticism
  • John Berryman, [Crane’s Art in Maggie]
  • Charles Child Walcutt, [Hallucination and Hysteria in Maggie]
  • William Bysshe Stein, New Testament Inversions in Crane’s Maggie
  • Joseph X. Brennan, Ironic and Symbolic Structure in Crane’s Maggie
  • Janet Overmyer, The Structure of Crane’s Maggie
  • Donald Pizer, Stephen Crane’s Maggie and American Naturalism
  • Joseph Katz, [Art and Compromise: The 1893 and the 1896 Maggie]
  • Eric Solomon, [Maggie as a Three-Act Drama]
  • Jay Martin, [Maggie and Satire]
  • Donald B. Gibson, [The Flawed Maggie]
  • Arno Karlen, [Lapses and Craft in Crane’s Maggie]
  • Katherine G. Simoneaux, Color Imagery in Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
  • Frank Bergon, [The Framework of Maggie]
  • Hershel Parker and Brian Higgins, Maggie’s "Last Night": Authorial Design and Editorial Patching
  • Thomas A. Gullason, Tragedy and Melodrama in Stephen Crane’s Maggie
  • Selected Bibliography