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New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches by George G. Foster (1990, Trade Paperback)

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First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower stratum-the underground story-of life in New York " The author of this lively and fascinating little book, which both attracted and offended large numbers of readers in Victorian America, was George G. Foster, reporter for Horace Greeley's influential New York Tribune, social commentator, poet, and man about town. Foster drew on his daily and nightly rambles through the city's streets and among the characters of the urban demi-monde to produce a sensationalized but extraordinarily revealing portrait of New York at the moment it was emerging as a major metropolis. Reprinted here with sketches from two of Foster's other books, New York by Gas-Light will be welcomed by students of urban social history, popular culture, literature, and journalism. Editor Stuart M. Blumin has provided a penetrating introductory essay that sets Foster's life and work in the contexts of the growing city, the development of the mass-distribution publishing industry, the evolving literary genre of urban sensationalism, and the wider culture of Victorian America. This is an important reintroduction to a significant but neglected work, a prologue to the urban realism that would flourish later in the fiction of Stephen Crane, the painting of George Bellows, and the journalism of Jacob Riis.

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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520067223
ISBN-13
9780520067226
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1021429

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Book Title
New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches
Author
George G. Foster
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / General, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
1990
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
251 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
F128.44.F758 1991
Table of Content
Introduction: George G. Foster and the Emerging Metropolis A Note on the Texts New York by Gas-Light: With Here and There a Streak of Sunshine New York by Daylight: Selections from New York in Slices and Fifteen Minutes Around New York "A General Dash at the Ferries" "The Mock Auctions" "The Eating-Houses" "Wall Street and the Merchants' Exchange" "The Needlewomen" "A Plunge in the Swimming-Bath" "A Quarter of an Hour Under an Awning" "Sunday in New York
Copyright Date
1991
Lccn
90-035290
Dewey Decimal
974.71
Dewey Edition
20

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New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches by George G. Foster (1990, Trade Paperback)

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