The Cambridge companion to the literature of New York

The Cambridge companion to the literature of New York / edited by Cyrus R.K. Patell and Bryan Waterman.

New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth...

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Other Authors: Patell, Cyrus R. K. (Editor), Waterman, Bryan, 1970- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
American literature > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > New York (State) > New York.
Literature and society.
Electronic resources (E-books)
New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life.
New York (N.Y.) > In literature.
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • From British outpost to American metropolis / Robert Lawson-Peebles
  • Dutch New York from Irving to Wharton / Elizabeth L. Bradley
  • The city on stage / Bryan Waterman
  • Melville, at sea in the city / Thomas Augst
  • Whitman's urbanism / Lytle Shaw
  • The early literature of New York's moneyed class / Caleb Crain
  • Writing Brooklyn / Martha Nadell
  • New York and the novel of manners / Sarah Wilson
  • Immigrants, politics, and the popular cultures of tolerance / Eric Homberger
  • Performing Greenwich Village bohemianism / Melissa Bradshaw
  • African American literary movements / Thulani Davis
  • New York's cultures of print / Trysh Travis
  • From poetry to punk in the East Village / Daniel Kane
  • Staging lesbian and gay New York / Robin Bernstein
  • Emergent ethnic literatures / Cyrus R.K. Patell
  • Epilogue: Nostalgia and counter-nostalgia in New York City writing / Bryan Waterman.

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