About the Series | p. v |
About This Volume | p. ix |
List of Illustrations | p. xvii |
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York): The Complete Text | p. 1 |
Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background | p. 3 |
Chronology of Crane's Life and Times | p. 24 |
A Note on the Text | p. 34 |
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) [1893 Edition] | p. 36 |
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York): Cultural Contexts | p. 95 |
In Darkest New York | p. 97 |
Tenement Life | p. 102 |
"A Hot Wave among the Poor" | p. 102 |
"The New Uncle Tom's Cabin" | p. 106 |
"The Tenement-House Problem" | p. 112 |
"Tenement-House Morality" | p. 120 |
"The Problem of the Children" | p. 128 |
From "Life in New York Tenement-Houses" | p. 133 |
Shops, Saloons, Concert Halls | p. 145 |
From "The Bowery" | p. 145 |
"The Bowery at Night" | p. 159 |
"Where 'De Gang' Hears the Band Play" | p. 165 |
"The Beer Gardens" | p. 170 |
From "The Saloon in Society" | p. 174 |
"Tempting Poor Women: They Buy Beer and Have It Charged as 'Potatoes'" | p. 183 |
From Metropolitan Life Unveiled; or the Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities | p. 187 |
The Plight of the Working Woman | p. 195 |
Working Women from the Perspective of Others | p. 199 |
"The Song of the Shirt" | p. 199 |
"The Working Girls of New York" | p. 202 |
"Queens of the Shop, the Workroom, and the Tenement" | p. 208 |
"Senate Testimony from 'Jennie June'" | p. 217 |
"Store Girls: Their Fascinations, Foibles and Temptations" | p. 226 |
"The Woes of the New York Working-Girl" | p. 233 |
Working Women Tell Their Own Stories | p. 243 |
"In Employment Offices: Trials of Women Who Look There for Work" | p. 244 |
"Counter Trials: The Shop-Girl Speaks" | p. 250 |
"The Song of the Shirt: How the Finisher Lives" | p. 252 |
"The Embroiderer: Quick Work and Scanty Wages" | p. 254 |
"The Scarf-Maker" | p. 256 |
"The Lace-Maker" | p. 258 |
"The Black-Borderer: A Solemn Kind of Work" | p. 260 |
"The Painted Cohorts" | p. 263 |
From The History of Prostitution | p. 266 |
"Street Girls" | p. 273 |
"Prostitution" | p. 276 |
From Metropolitan Life Unveiled | p. 285 |
"Report on Prostitution and the Working Woman" | p. 289 |
"The Case of Rose Haggerty" | p. 294 |
Realism and Beyond | p. 302 |
Critics and Theorists | p. 305 |
From Aesthetics | p. 305 |
From The Art of Fiction | p. 311 |
"The Future of Fiction" | p. 316 |
"The Justification of Slum Stories" | p. 327 |
From "New York Low Life in Fiction" | p. 333 |
The Fallen Woman and Slum Fiction | p. 338 |
From The Two Detectives; or, The Fortunes of a Bowery Girl | p. 338 |
From We and Our Neighbors | p. 345 |
From The Evil That Men Do | p. 353 |
"Minnie Kelsey's Wedding" | p. 361 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 370 |
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