Walking New York : Reflections of American Writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole /

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"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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Stephen, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA).
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Literature and society > New York (State) > New York > History.
Authors, English > Travel > New York (State) > New York > History.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > New York (State) > New York.
City and town life in literature.
Walking in literature.
Walking > New York (State) > New York.
American literature > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > In literature.
New York (N.Y.) > In literature.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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