Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 From British outpost to American metropolis
- 2 Dutch New York from Irving to Wharton
- 3 The city on stage
- 4 Melville, at sea in the city
- 5 Whitman’s urbanism
- 6 The early literature of New York’s moneyed class
- 7 Writing Brooklyn
- 8 New York and the novel of manners
- 9 Immigrants, politics, and the popular cultures of tolerance
- 10 Performing Greenwich Village bohemianism
- 11 African American literary movements
- 12 New York’s cultures of print
- 13 From poetry to punk in the East Village
- 14 Staging lesbian and gay New York
- 15 Emergent ethnic literatures
- Further reading
- Index
- Series list
Series list
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 From British outpost to American metropolis
- 2 Dutch New York from Irving to Wharton
- 3 The city on stage
- 4 Melville, at sea in the city
- 5 Whitman’s urbanism
- 6 The early literature of New York’s moneyed class
- 7 Writing Brooklyn
- 8 New York and the novel of manners
- 9 Immigrants, politics, and the popular cultures of tolerance
- 10 Performing Greenwich Village bohemianism
- 11 African American literary movements
- 12 New York’s cultures of print
- 13 From poetry to punk in the East Village
- 14 Staging lesbian and gay New York
- 15 Emergent ethnic literatures
- Further reading
- Index
- Series list
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York , pp. 256 - 258Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010