Maggie: A Girl of the Streets（街头女郎梅季）

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets was the first major naturalistic novel in America. This edition reprints the first published version, that of 1893.
Misprints and errors have been corrected and are identified in "A Note on the Text." Footnotes indicate changes in wording Crane made for the 1896 edition and explain slang expressions and customs of the day. Maps of the novel’s New York City locales are also provided.
"Backgrounds and Sources" includes nonfictional accounts of urban life by Jacob Riis and others from which Crane drew, as well as discussions of Crane’s literary sources
"The Author and the Novel" traces the history of the novelís composition and revision.
Contemporary American reviews of the 1893 Maggie and American and English reviews of the 1896 edition focus on the historical importance of the work, the values and tastes of the 1890s, and Crane’s modernism.
The modern critical essays are by John Berryman, Charles Child Walcutt, William Bysshe Stein, Joseph X. Brennan, Janet Overmyer, Donald Pizer, Joseph Katz, Eric Solomon, Jay Martin, Donald B. Gibson, Arno Karlen, Katherine G. Simoneaux, Frank Bergon, Hershel Parker, Brian Higgins, and Thomas A. Gullason.

Thomas A. Gullason is Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Studies in Short Fiction and has edited The Complete Short Stories and Sketches of Stephen Crane; The Complete Novels of Stephen Crane; and Stephen Crane’s Career: Perspectives and Evaluations.

Preface
The Text of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) (1893)
A Note to the Text
Backgrounds and Sources
New York City Locales Mentioned in Maggie
Map of Lower Manhattan
Charles Loring Brace, From The Dangerous Classes of New York
Reverend Thomas De Witt Talmage
From The Evil Beast
From The Night Sides of City Life
Jacob Riis, From How the Other Half Lives
From The Children of the Poor
Benjamin Orange Flower, From Civilization’s Inferno
Lars A!hnebrink, [Zola as Literary Model for Maggie]
Marcus Cunliff, Stephen Crane and the American Backround of Maggie
Thomas A. Gullason, [A Minister, a Social Reformer, and Maggie]
David Fitelson, Stephen Crane’s Maggie and Darwinism
Daniel Aaron, Howells’ "Maggie"
Eric Solomon, [Maggie and the Parody of Popular Fiction]
The Author and the Novel
BIRTH NOTICES, LETTERS, AND INSCRIPTIONS: THE 1893 Maggie
Frank W. Noxon, The Real Stephen Crane
Willis Fletcher Johnson, The Launching of Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane, Howells Discussed at Avon-by-the-Sea
The Broken-Down Van
Summer Dwellers at Asbury Park and Their Doings
Letters and Inscriptions
REBIRTH AND REVISIONS: THE 1893 Maggie
Stephen Crane, Letters
Contemporary Reviews
AMERICAN REVIEWS: 1893
From the Port Jervis [New York] Union
Hamlin Garland, An Ambitious French Novel and A Modest American Story
The Author-Artist Will Soon Issue a Book — Stephen Crane’s "Maggie"
From The Bookman [New York]
Chelifer [Rupert Hughes], The Justification of Slum Stories
AMERICAN REVIEWS: 1896
From the New York Tribune
From The Nation
Frank Norris, Stephen Crane’s Stories of Life in the Slums: Maggie and George’s Mother
Edward Bright, A Melodrama of the Streets
William Dean Howells, New York Low Life in Fiction
ENGLISH REVIEWS: 1896
From The Bookman [London]
From The Athenaeum
H.G. Wells, Another View of "Maggie"
Novels of American Life
Criticism
John Berryman, [Crane’s Art in Maggie]
Charles Child Walcutt, [Hallucination and Hysteria in Maggie]
William Bysshe Stein, New Testament Inversions in Crane’s Maggie
Joseph X. Brennan, Ironic and Symbolic Structure in Crane’s Maggie
Janet Overmyer, The Structure of Crane’s Maggie
Donald Pizer, Stephen Crane’s Maggie and American Naturalism
Joseph Katz, [Art and Compromise: The 1893 and the 1896 Maggie]
Eric Solomon, [Maggie as a Three-Act Drama]
Jay Martin, [Maggie and Satire]
Donald B. Gibson, [The Flawed Maggie]
Arno Karlen, [Lapses and Craft in Crane’s Maggie]
Katherine G. Simoneaux, Color Imagery in Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Frank Bergon, [The Framework of Maggie]
Hershel Parker and Brian Higgins, Maggie’s "Last Night": Authorial Design and Editorial Patching
Thomas A. Gullason, Tragedy and Melodrama in Stephen Crane’s Maggie
Selected Bibliography