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Street Life of Children in 20th Century New York

Abstract

This article explains how and why over the course of the 20th century the streetlife of children in New York City disappeared. It draws on the very rich resources of memoir and fiction to understand what happened and, in doing so, it comes to understand the importance of street life in stirring the literary imagination.

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