Walking New York : reflections of American writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole /

A literary walking tour of New York City as seen through the eyes of American and British writers. It's no wonder that New York has always been a magnet city for writers. Manhattan is one of the most walkable cities in the world. While many novelists, poets and essayists have enjoyed long walks...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Miller, Stephen, 1941-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	American literature > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism. Walking > New York (State) > New York. Walking in literature. City and town life in literature. Authors, American > Homes and haunts > New York (State) > New York. Authors, English > Travel > New York (State) > New York > History. Literature and society > New York (State) > New York > History. New York (N.Y.) > In literature. Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > In literature. New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Reflections on Walking: From Plato to Baudelaire
2. Britons Visiting New York: Fanny Trollope, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens
3. Walt Whitman: Magnetic Mannahatta
4. Herman Melville: Lost in the City
5. William Dean Howells: Boston vs. New York
6. Jacob Riis: Walking for Reform
7. Henry James: What to Make of the Bristling City
8. Stephen Crane: Adventures in Poverty
9. Theodore Dreiser: From Broadway to the Bowery
10. James Weldon Johnson: A Black Man in Manhattan
11. Alfred Kazin: Reveries of a Solitary Walker
12. Elizabeth Hardwick: West Side Stories
13. Colson Whitehead and Teju Cole: Disoriented, Deracinated, Exhilarated
14. The Synthetic Sublime
Notes
Bibliography
Index.