Urban space and late twentieth-century New York literature : reformed geographies /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Neculai, Catalina (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	American literature readings in the 21st century.
Subjects:	American literature > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. New York (N.Y.) > In literature.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: Urban hermeneutics and the problem of the fetish space
The paradigmatic exceptionality of New York: scaffolding a radical literary urbanism
Downtown, uptown and the urbanization of literary consciousness
Scale, culture and real estate: the reproduction of lowliness in Great Jones Street
Kill the poor: low rent aesthetics and the new housing order
Uneven city: brightness falls and the ethnography of fictitious finance
Epilogue: The politics of urban writing and the hegemony of fire.