About the Series p. v
About This Volume p. ix
List of Illustrations p. xvii
Part 1 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
Part 2 Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York): Cultural Contexts p. 95
1. In Darkest New York p. 97
Tenement Life p. 102
"A Hot Wave among the Poor" Harry P. Mawson p. 102
"The New Uncle Tom's Cabin" Alice Wellington Rollins p. 106
"The Tenement-House Problem" Alice Wellington Rollins p. 112
"Tenement-House Morality" James O. S. Huntington p. 120
"The Problem of the Children" Jacob A. Riis p. 128
From "Life in New York Tenement-Houses" William T. Elsing p. 133
Shops, Saloons, Concert Halls p. 145
From "The Bowery" Julian Ralph p. 145
"The Bowery at Night" David Graham Phillips p. 159
"Where 'De Gang' Hears the Band Play" Stephen Crane p. 165
"The Beer Gardens" James D. McCabe p. 170
From "The Saloon in Society" George Frederic Parsons 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 J. W. Buel p. 187
2. The Plight of the Working Woman p. 195
Working Women from the Perspective of Others p. 199
"The Song of the Shirt" Thomas Hood p. 199
"The Working Girls of New York" Jacob A. Riis p. 202
"Queens of the Shop, the Workroom, and the Tenement" Katharine Pearson Woods p. 208
"Senate Testimony from 'Jennie June'" Jane Cunningham Croly p. 217
"Store Girls: Their Fascinations, Foibles and Temptations" Abraham Hummel and William F. Howe p. 226
"The Woes of the New York Working-Girl" Edgar Fawcett 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
3. "The Painted Cohorts" p. 263
From The History of Prostitution William W. Sanger p. 266
"Street Girls" Charles Loring Brace p. 273
"Prostitution" Edward Crapsey p. 276
From Metropolitan Life Unveiled J. W. Buel p. 285
"Report on Prostitution and the Working Woman" p. 289
"The Case of Rose Haggerty" Helen Stuart Campbell p. 294
4. Realism and Beyond p. 302
Critics and Theorists p. 305
From Aesthetics Eugene Veron p. 305
From The Art of Fiction Henry James p. 311
"The Future of Fiction" Hamlin Garland p. 316
"The Justification of Slum Stories" Rupert Hughes p. 327
From "New York Low Life in Fiction" William Dean Howells p. 333
The Fallen Woman and Slum Fiction p. 338
From The Two Detectives; or, The Fortunes of a Bowery Girl Albert W. Aiken p. 338
From We and Our Neighbors Harriet Beecher Stowe p. 345
From The Evil That Men Do Edgar Fawcett p. 353
"Minnie Kelsey's Wedding" J. W. Sullivan p. 361
Selected Bibliography p. 370