God in the Street - New York Writing from The Penny Press to Melville

Uncovers the innovations in writing that accompanied the market society - the penny newspapers' grandiose boastings, the poetic catalogues of Walt Whitman, the sentimental realism of charity workers, the sensationalism of slum visitors, and the complex urban encounters of Herman Melville's fiction.

Summary

Uncovers the innovations in writing that accompanied the market society - the penny newspapers' grandiose boastings, the poetic catalogues of Walt Whitman, the sentimental realism of charity workers, the sensationalism of slum visitors, and the complex urban encounters of Herman Melville's fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Bergmann
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.1995
• EAN: 9781566393577
• ISBN: 978-1-56639-357-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Illustrations: 4 figures, 5 illustrations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Kulturwissenschaften, Amerikanisches Englisch