The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York

by Edited by Cyrus R. K. Patell , Bryan Waterman

• ISBN13: 9780521735551
• ISBN10: 0521735556
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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.

Table of Contents

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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