| Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Contributor(s): Crane, Stephen (Author), Gullason, Thomas A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393950247 ISBN-13: 9780393950243 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $23.28 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1979 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 78024596 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.13" W x 8.31" (0.66 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 50676 Reading Level: 8.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This edition reprints the first published version, that of 1893. Misprints and errors have been corrected and are identified in A Note on the Text. Footnotes indicate changes in wording Crane made for the 1896 edition and explain slang expressions and customs of the day. Maps of the novel's New York City locales are also provided. Backgrounds and Sources includes nonfictional accounts of urban life by Jacob Riis and others from which Crane drew, as well as discussions of Crane's literary sources The Author and the Novel traces the history of the novel's composition and revision. Contemporary American reviews of the 1893 Maggie and American and English reviews of the 1896 edition focus on the historical importance of the work, the values and tastes of the 1890s, and Crane's modernism. The modern critical essays are by John Berryman, Charles Child Walcutt, William Bysshe Stein, Joseph X. Brennan, Janet Overmyer, Donald Pizer, Joseph Katz, Eric Solomon, Jay Martin, Donald B. Gibson, Arno Karlen, Katherine G. Simoneaux, Frank Bergon, Hershel Parker, Brian Higgins, and Thomas A. Gullason. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gullason, Thomas A.: - Thomas A. Gullason is Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Studies in Short Fiction and has edited The Complete Short Stories and Sketches of Stephen Crane; The Complete Novels of Stephen Crane; and Stephen Crane's Career: Perspectives and Evaluations.Crane, Stephen: - Stephen Crane was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. |