New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches

Name: New York by Gas-Light and Other Urban Sketches
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ISBN: 9780520067226

ISBN-10: 0520067223

ISBN-13: 9780520067226

Edition: 1991

Authors: George G. Foster, Stuart M. Blumin

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First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower stratum--the underground story--of life in New York!" The author of this lively and fascinating little book, which both attracted and offended large numbers of readers in Victorian America, was George G. Foster, reporter for Horace Greeley's influential New York Tribune, social commentator, poet, and man about town. Foster drew on his daily and nightly rambles through the city's streets and among…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/21/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 251
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction: George G. Foster and the Emerging Metropolis


A Note on the Texts


New York by Gas-Light: With Here and There a Streak of Sunshine


New York by Daylight: Selections from New York in Slices and Fifteen Minutes Around New York


"A General Dash at the Ferries"


"The Mock Auctions"


"The Eating-Houses"


"Wall Street and the Merchants' Exchange"


"The Needlewomen"


"A Plunge in the Swimming-Bath"


"A Quarter of an Hour Under an Awning"


"Sunday in New York"