Walking New York
Reflections of American Writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole
New York : Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: xix, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
"Walking New York is an idiosyncratic guide to New York--a study of twelve American writers who walked in New York and wrote about their impressions of the city in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry"-- \c Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Reflections on walking : from Plato to Baudelaire -- Britons visiting New York : Fanny Trollope, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens -- Walt Whitman : magnetic Mannahatta -- Herman Melville : lost in the city -- William Dean Howells : Boston vs. New York -- Jacob Riis : walking for reform -- Henry James : what to make of the bristling city -- Stephen Crane : adventures in poverty -- Theodore Dreiser : from Broadway to the Bowery -- James Weldon Johnson : a black man in Manhattan -- Alfred Kazin : reveries of a solitary walker -- Elizabeth Hardwick : West Side stories -- Colson Whitehead and Teju Cole : disoriented, deracinated, exhilarated -- The synthetic sublime.
Subjects:
American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.
Walking -- New York (State) -- New York.
Walking in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.
Authors, English -- Travel -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Literature and society -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
New York (N.Y.) -- In literature.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- In literature.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.
Walking -- New York (State) -- New York.
Walking in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.
Authors, English -- Travel -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Literature and society -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
New York (N.Y.) -- In literature.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- In literature.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
ISBN:
082327425X
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LITERATURE Mil | Ballentine Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235 to 242) and index.