Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wilson, Ross[Herausgeber]

Titel

New York : a literary history

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index
• Introduction: a history of New York literature / Ross Wilson -- Adaptation and adjustment. Changing culture: the contribution of European immigrants to New York City literature, 1870-1940 / Martino Marazzi -- Agitators and intellectuals: radical Jewish storytellers / Catherine Morley -- The mirror of the West: Arab-American literature in early 20th century New York City / Raphael Cormack -- Writing the Big Apple in Chinese and Chinese American literature / Fengchia Feng -- Innovation and inspiration. Sharing social space: New York as a city of the housed and unhoused / Dorothea Löbber -- Health reform in the mid-nineteenth century New York periodical press / David Dowling -- Neoliberal New York: contemporary literature and the politics of urban redevelopment / Catalina Neculai -- The marvellous and the mundane: Ekphrastic New York novels (5,438) / Monika Gehlawat -- Identity and place. Growing up in Manhattan: children's literature and New York City / Pádraic Whyte -- Wartime reading in the city, 1914-1918 / Ross Wilson -- The periodical and the Flâneur in early New York / Peter Ferry -- Multiple voices: New York City poetry / Rona Cran -- The New York School: toward a definition / Yasmine Shamma -- Tragedy and hope. The spatial drama of hope and desire in contemporary New York literature / Bart Eeckhout -- New and Old Amsterdam in twenty-first century fiction / Maria Lauret -- Beats, Black culture and Bohemianism in mid-twentieth century New York City / Douglas Field -- 'The Sixth Borough': imagining New York after 9/11 / Birgit Däwes -- Walking the modern city: emotion and space in New York / Nathalie Cochoy -- Afterword / Lisa Keller.
• "New York City's streets, parks, museums, architecture and its people appear in an array of literary works published from New York's earliest settlement to the present day. The exploration of the city as both a symbol and as a reality has formed the basis of New York's literature. Using the themes of adaptation, innovation, identity and hope, this history explores novels, poetry, periodicals and newspapers to examine how New York's literature can be understood through the notion of movement. From the periodicals of the nineteenth century, the Arabic writers of the city in the early twentieth century, the literature of homelessness, childhood and the spaces of tragedy and resilience within the metropolis, this diverse assessment opens up new areas of research within urban literature. It provides an innovative examination of how writing has shaped the lives of New Yorkers and how writing about the city has shaped the modern world"--