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List of illustrations | p. vii |
Notes on contributors | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Chronology | p. xiv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
From British outpost to American metropolis | p. 10 |
Dutch New York from Irving to Wharton | p. 27 |
The city on stage | p. 42 |
Melville, at sea in the city | p. 58 |
Whitman's urbanism | p. 76 |
The early literature of New York's moneyed class | p. 90 |
Writing Brooklyn | p. 109 |
New York and the novel of manners | p. 121 |
Immigrants, politics, and the popular cultures of tolerance | p. 134 |
Performing Greenwich Village bohemianism | p. 146 |
African American literary movements | p. 160 |
New York's cultures of print | p. 176 |
From poetry to punk in the East Village | p. 189 |
Staging lesbian and gay New York | p. 202 |
Emergent ethnic literatures | p. 218 |
Epilogue: Nostalgia and counter-nostalgia in New York City writing | p. 232 |
Further reading | p. 241 |
Index | p. 244 |
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