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

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

THE NEW YORK OBSERVER: ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS FOR FALLIt’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 long walks in New York, not all of them have had favorable...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Miller, Stephen,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • 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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