{"product_id":"new-york-a-literary-history-hardback-9781108470810","title":"New York; A Literary History (Hardback) 9781108470810","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNew York\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Literary History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe city's literature is explored in this volume, which reveals a metropolis in a constant state of movement.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRoss Wilson (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108470810, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 February 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e332 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The collection is too eclectic and wide-ranging to serve as a reference resource, but all the essays are thoughtful, well written, and provocative. The study of literature through the lens of space and place is a significant critical trend, one to which this book is an important contribution … Highly recommended.' J. W. Miller, Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNew York City's streets, parks, museums, architecture, and its people appear in an array of literary works published from New York's earliest settlement to the present day. The exploration of the city as both a symbol and as a reality has formed the basis of New York's literature. Using the themes of adaptation, innovation, identity, and hope, this history explores novels, poetry, periodicals, and newspapers to examine how New York's literature can be understood through the notion of movement. From the periodicals of the nineteenth century, the Arabic writers of the city in the early twentieth century, the literature of homelessness, childhood, and the spaces of tragedy and resilience within the metropolis, this diverse assessment opens up new areas of research within urban literature. It provides an innovative examination of how writing has shaped the lives of New Yorkers and how writing about the city has shaped the modern world.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: a history of New York literature Ross Wilson\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Adaptation and Adjustment: 2. Changing culture: the contribution of European immigrants to New York City literature, 1870–1940 Martino Marazzi\u003cbr\u003e 3. Agitators and intellectuals: radical Jewish storytellers Catherine Morley\u003cbr\u003e 4. The mirror of the West: Arab-American literature in early twentieth century New York City Raphael Cormack\u003cbr\u003e 5. Writing the Big Apple in Chinese and Chinese American literature Pin-chia Feng\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Innovation and Inspiration: 6. Sharing social space: New York as a city of the housed and unhoused Dorothea Löbbermann\u003cbr\u003e 7. Health reform in the mid-nineteenth-century New York periodical press David Dowling\u003cbr\u003e 8. Neoliberal New York: contemporary literature and the politics of urban redevelopment Catalina Neculai\u003cbr\u003e 9. The marvellous and the mundane: ekphrastic New York novels Monika Gehlawat\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Identity and Place: 10. Growing up in Manhattan: children's literature and New York City Pádraic Whyte\u003cbr\u003e 11. Wartime reading in the city, 1914–1918 Ross Wilson\u003cbr\u003e 12. The periodical and the flâneur in early New York writing Peter Ferry\u003cbr\u003e 13. Multiple voices: New York City poetry Rona Cran\u003cbr\u003e 14. The New York School: toward a definition Yasmine Shamma\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Tragedy and Hope: 15. The spatial drama of hope and desire in contemporary New York City literature Bart Eeckhout\u003cbr\u003e 16. New and Old Amsterdam in twenty-first century fiction Maria Lauret\u003cbr\u003e 17. Beats, black culture and bohemianism in mid-twentieth century New York City Douglas Field\u003cbr\u003e 18. 'The sixth borough': imagining New York after 9\/11 Birgit Däwes\u003cbr\u003e 19. Walking the modern city: emotion and space in New York Nathalie Cochoy\u003cbr\u003e 20. Afterword Lisa Keller.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary reference works [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary reference works\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20reference%20works%20%5BDSR%5D%22\"\u003eDSR\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003716555032,"sku":"9781108470810","price":30.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108470810i_be42feac-bc9f-4a72-8ec9-fb0ca2511ce4.jpg?v=1696702454","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/new-york-a-literary-history-hardback-9781108470810","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}