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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York [electronic resource] / Edited by Cyrus R. K. Patell, Bryan Waterman

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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1 online resource (282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Patell, Cyrus R. K. and Waterman, Bryan
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.From British outpost to American metropolis / Robert Lawson-Peebles -- 2.Dutch New York from Irving to Wharton / Elizabeth L. Bradley -- 3.The city on stage / Bryan Waterman -- 4.Melville, at sea in the city / Thomas Augst -- 5.Whitman's urbanism / Lytle Shaw -- 6.The early literature of New York's moneyed class / Caleb Crain -- 7.Writing Brooklyn / Martha Nadell -- 8.New York and the novel of manners / Sarah Wilson -- 9.Immigrants, politics, and the popular cultures of tolerance / Eric Homberger -- 10.Performing Greenwich Village bohemianism / Melissa Bradshaw -- 11.African American literary movements / Thulani Davis -- 12.New York's cultures of print / Trysh Travis -- 13.From poetry to punk in the East Village / Daniel Kane -- 14.Staging lesbian and gay New York / Robin Bernstein -- 15.Emergent ethnic literatures / Cyrus R. K. Patell.
Summary
From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York offers writers a unique perspective on American culture. This Companion explores the range of writing and performance in the city. Illustrated and featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is the ideal guide for students of American literature as well as for all who love New York and its writers. --Book Jacket.
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9781139002844 (ebook)
9780521514712 (hardback)
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