Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York

Informationen zum Autor Cyrus Patell is Associate Professor of English at New York University. Bryan Waterman is Associate Professor of English at New York University. Klappentext A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of the city from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present. Zusammenfassung This Companion explores the range of writing and performance in the city! celebrating Herman Melville! Walt Whitman! Edith Wharton! Eugene O'Neill! and Allen Ginsburg among a host of authors who have contributed to the city's rich literary and cultural history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; Introduction Cyrus R. K. Patell; 1. From British outpost to American metropolis Robert Lawson-Peebles; 2. Dutch New York from Irving to Wharton Elizabeth L. Bradley; 3. The city on stage Bryan Waterman; 4. Melville, at sea in the city Thomas Augst; 5. Whitman's urbanism Lytle Shaw; 6. The early literature of New York's moneyed class Caleb Crain; 7. Writing Brooklyn Martha Nadell; 8. New York and the novel of manners Sarah Wilson; 9. Immigrants, politics and the popular cultures of tolerance Eric Homberger; 10. Performing Greenwich Village bohemianism Melissa Bradshaw; 11. African American literary movements Thulani Davis; 12. New York's cultures of print Trysh Travis; 13. From poetry to punk in the East Village Daniel Kane; 14. Staging lesbian and gay New York Robin Bernstein; 15. Emergent ethnic literatures Cyrus R. K. Patell; Epilogue: Nostalgia and counter-nostalgia in New York City writing Bryan Waterman; Guide to further reading.

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• Authors: Cyrus Patell, Cyrus R. K. Patell
• Assisted by: Cyrus R. K. Patell (Editor), Patell Cyrus R. K. (Editor), Bryan Waterman (Editor), Waterman Bryan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521735551
• ISBN: 978-0-521-73555-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge companion
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; New York, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature & literary studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general