Walking New York
Subtitle: reflections of American writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole
By: Stephen Miller
Publisher: Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780823263158
Subjects: Walking; Literature and society; City and town life in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Walking in literature; American Authors; English Authors; Homes and haunts; Social conditions; In literature; Travel; History
Description: "Walking New York is an idiosyncratic guide to New York--a study of twelve American writers who walked in New York and wrote about their impressions of the city in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Reflections on Walking: From Plato to Baudelaire; title: 2. Britons Visiting New York: Fanny Trollope, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens; title: 3. Walt Whitman: Magnetic Mannahatta; title: 4. Herman Melville: Lost in the City; title: 5. William Dean Howells: Boston vs. New York; title: 6. Jacob Riis: Walking for Reform; title: 7. Henry James: What to Make of the Bristling City; title: 8. Stephen Crane: Adventures in Poverty; title: 9. Theodore Dreiser: From Broadway to the Bowery; title: 10. James Weldon Johnson: A Black Man in Manhattan; title: 11. Alfred Kazin: Reveries of a Solitary Walker; title: 12. Elizabeth Hardwick: West Side Stories; title: 13. Colson Whitehead and Teju Cole: Disoriented, Deracinated, Exhilarated; title: 14. The Synthetic Sublime.