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"It could have been any street": Ann Petry, Stephen Crane, and the fate of naturalism.(Critical essay)

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From: Studies in American Fiction
Date: 20060322
Author:Dingledine, Don

In the famous opening scene of his first novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, published in 1893, Stephen Crane writes:

 
   A very tittle boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of 
   Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from 
   Devil's Row who were circling madly about the heap and pelting 
   at him. 
 
      His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body 
   was writhing in the delivery of great, crimson oaths. 
 
      "Run, Jimmie, run! Dey'll get yehs," screamed a retreating 
   Rum Alley child. 
 
      "Naw," responded Jimmie with a ...

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