New York
A Literary History

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Introduction: a history of New York literature Ross Wilson
Part I. Adaptation and Adjustment:
2. Changing culture: the contribution of European immigrants to New York City literature, 1870–1940 Martino Marazzi
3. Agitators and intellectuals: radical Jewish storytellers Catherine Morley
4. The mirror of the West: Arab-American literature in early twentieth century New York City Raphael Cormack
5. Writing the Big Apple in Chinese and Chinese American literature Pin-chia Feng
Part II. Innovation and Inspiration:
6. Sharing social space: New York as a city of the housed and unhoused Dorothea Löbbermann
7. Health reform in the mid-nineteenth-century New York periodical press David Dowling
8. Neoliberal New York: contemporary literature and the politics of urban redevelopment Catalina Neculai
9. The marvellous and the mundane: ekphrastic New York novels Monika Gehlawat
Part III. Identity and Place:
10. Growing up in Manhattan: children's literature and New York City Pádraic Whyte
11. Wartime reading in the city, 1914–1918 Ross Wilson
12. The periodical and the flâneur in early New York writing Peter Ferry
13. Multiple voices: New York City poetry Rona Cran
14. The New York School: toward a definition Yasmine Shamma
Part IV. Tragedy and Hope:
15. The spatial drama of hope and desire in contemporary New York City literature Bart Eeckhout
16. New and Old Amsterdam in twenty-first century fiction Maria Lauret
17. Beats, black culture and bohemianism in mid-twentieth century New York City Douglas Field
18. 'The sixth borough': imagining New York after 9/11 Birgit Däwes
19. Walking the modern city: emotion and space in New York Nathalie Cochoy
20. Afterword Lisa Keller.

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