| 词条 | Hot Corn |
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| name = Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated | image = Hot Corn cover.png | caption = Book cover of first edition | title_orig = | translator = | author = Solon Robinson | illustrator = John McLenan, (engraver Nathaniel Orr) | cover_artist = | country = | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = | publisher = DeWitt and Davenport (New York) | pub_date = 1854 | english_pub_date = | media_type = | pages = 408 | isbn = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated is a collection of short stories by Solon Robinson about the life of the poor in New York City, and was a "runaway bestseller" when first published in the United States in early 1854. Along with songs and plays based on the book's stories, which were first published in the New York Tribune, Hot Corn enjoyed a brief frenzy of popularity.[1] BackgroundThe book is a collection of stories set in New York City's impoverished Five Points neighborhood, and first appeared in the New York Tribune in 1853.[1][2] One of stories was that of Little Katy, a hot corn seller on the street, who is beaten to death by her alcoholic mother who needs Katy's income to support her drinking, after Katy's corn supply is stolen.[4] Author Henry James wrote in his autobiography he was prevented from reading Hot Corn as a child; a copy was given to his father with the admonishment that it wasn't proper for children to read. James wrote that "so great became from that moment the mystery of the tabooed book, of whatever identity; the question, in my breast, of why, if it was to be so right for others, it was only to be wrong for me..... Neither then nor afterwards was the secret of "Hot Corn" revealed to me ..."[6] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow took his sons to see one of the plays in April 1854 and called it "wretched stuff."[7] The Tribune trumpeted the popularity of the stories and plays, boasting in December 1853 that the stories had been reprinted "more than any other article that ever went the rounds of the press."[8] Numerous songs based on the story of Little Katy, including ones performed at minstrel shows, also circulated.[9] The book was sold in a cloth edition for $1.25 and gilt edition for $2.00.[10] A January 1854 advertisement in the Tribune claimed that forty thousand copies had already been ordered, putting the publisher 10,000 copies behind its production to date.[11] The feverish popularity of Hot Corn was not to last, and faded from popularity within eighteen months,[12] though the plays saw occasional revivals.[13][14] Robinson later recounted that the book sold over 100,000 copies within a year of being released.[15] Stage adaptationsReferences1. ^1 Burt, Daniel S. [https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C&pg=PA200&lpg=#v=onepage&q&f=false The Chronology of American Literature], p. 200 (2004) 2. ^Hart, James D. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHrPPt5rlvsC&pg=PA307#v=onepage&q&f=false The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste], 307 (1950) (listing Hot Corn as one of seven bestselling books of 1854) 3. ^(14 February 1854). "Hot Corn" Revelations on the "Shady Side of Life" in New York City, Lowell Daily Journal & Courier 4. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=TvwcAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA397&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false The Book Trade], Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, at p. 397 (March 1854) 5. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=eVMFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q&f=false Notices of New Works], Southern Literary Messenger, pp. 125-26 (February 1854) ("We are sick at heart when we think how little can be done by the reviewer to check the sale of such literature or to punish the makers of it.") 6. ^James, Henry. A Small Boy And Others: A Critical Edition, at p. 65 (2011) 7. ^Irmscher, Christoph. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4_YeZcS32l0C&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200], p. 1 (2009) 8. ^City Items - Hot Corn, The New York Tribune, p. 7 col. 4 (December 7, 1853) 9. ^Lawrence, Very Brodsky. [https://books.google.com/books?id=pvq65z0MTz8C&pg=PA440#v=onepage&q&f=false Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Vol. 2], p. 439-40 (1995) 10. ^Mellby, Julie L. Hot Corn, Graphic Arts (Graphic Arts Collection blog of Princeton University Library) 11. ^Hot Corn (advertisement), New York Tribune, p. 1, col. 4 (January 21, 1854) 12. ^Grimes, Robert R. Come Buy Hot Corn! Music, Sentiment, and Morality in 1850s New York, Journal of the Society for American Music, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 33-59 (February 2011) 13. ^(31 January 1876). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ui5CAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HrkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3532,989167&dq=hot-corn+little-katy&hl=en Amusements], The Baltimore Bee 14. ^(28 May 1914). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UGknAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EQQGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4889,6061242&dq=hot-corn+little-katy+revival&hl=en Notes and Queries], Boston Evening Transcript (For years these dramatic versions were revived.... little Katy was a well known to novel readers and theatre goers as Miss Alcott's 'Little Women' are to the present generation.") 15. ^Edwards, E.J. (14 October 1911). New News of Yesterday: Connecticut Pedler Who Once Wrote a "Best Seller", Amsterdam Evening Recorder 16. ^Bordman, Gerald & Thomas S. Hischak. [https://books.google.com/books?id=DiI1wIyatvUC&pg=PA317#v=onepage&q&f=false The Oxford Companion to American Theatre], p. 317 (3d ed. 2004) 17. ^1 Blocker, Jack S., et al., eds. [https://books.google.com/books?id=BuzNzm-x0l8C&pg=PA202#v=onepage&q&f=false Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History], p. 202 (2003) External links{{Gutenberg|no=37268|name=Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated}}
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