Maggie (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Crane
- First Published: 1893
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Naturalistic literature
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Homelessness or homeless people, Suicide, Nineteenth century, New York City, Prostitution or prostitutes, Alienation, Poverty or poor people, Inner cities or inner-city life, Women’s issues
- Locales: Manhattan, NY
The Work
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets was among the early American novels to break from British literary antecedents and move toward the kind of naturalism that Émile Zola was then writing in France. Maggie’s plot is thought to have been suggested by Zola’s novel about alcoholism, L’Assommoir (1877). In 1893, when Crane paid $869 to have eleven hundred copies of Maggie privately printed, most American readers of novels were innocent of many aspects of the real world. The moral priggishness and hypocrisy that pervade Crane’s novel afflicted...
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