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Walking New York : Reflections of American Writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole /
"A literary walking tour of New York City as seen through the eyes of American and British writers. It's no wonder that New York has always been a magnet city for writers. Manhattan is one of the most walkable cities in the world. While many novelists, poets, and essayists have enjoyed lo...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Reflections on Walking: From Plato to Baudelaire
- 2. Britons Visiting New York: Fanny Trollope, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens
- 3. Walt Whitman: Magnetic Mannahatta
- 4. Herman Melville: Lost in the City
- 5. William Dean Howells: Boston vs. New York
- 6. Jacob Riis: Walking for Reform
- 7. Henry James: What to Make of the Bristling City
- 8. Stephen Crane: Adventures in Poverty
- 9. Theodore Dreiser: From Broadway to the Bowery
- 10. James Weldon Johnson: A Black Man in Manhattan
- 11. Alfred Kazin: Reveries of a Solitary Walker
- 12. Elizabeth Hardwick: West Side Stories
- 13. Colson Whitehead and Teju Cole: Disoriented, Deracinated, Exhilarated
- 14. The Synthetic Sublime
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.