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N2  - THE NEW YORK OBSERVER: ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS FOR FALLIt'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 in New York, not all of them have had favorable impressions. Addressing an endlessly appealing subject, Walking New York is a study of twelve American writers and several British writers who walked the streets of New York and wrote about their impressions of the city in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.Seen through the eyes of Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, William Dean Howells, Jacob Riis, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, James Weldon Johnson, Alfred Kazin, Elizabeth Hardwick, Colson Whitehead, and Teju Cole, almost all the works in Walking New York are about Manhattan, with only Whitman and Kazin writing about Brooklyn. Though the writers were often irritated, disturbed, and occasionally shocked by what they saw on their walks, they were still fascinated by the city William Dean Howells called "splendidly and sordidly commercial" and Cynthia Ozick called "faithfully inconstant, magnetic, man-made, unnatural-the synthetic sublime."In this idiosyncratic guidebook to New York, celebrated writers ruminate on questions that are still hotly debated to this day: the pros and cons of capitalism and the impact of immigration. Many imply that New York is a bewildering text that is hard to make sense of. Returning to New York after an absence of two decades, Henry James loathed many things about "bristling" New York, while native New Yorker Walt Whitman both celebrated and criticized "Mannahatta" in his writings.Combining literary scholarship with urban studies, Walking New York reveals how this crowded, dirty, noisy, and sometimes ugly city gave these "restless analysts" plenty of fodder for their craft.
DO  - 10.1515/9780823263172
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AB  - THE NEW YORK OBSERVER: ONE OF THE TOP 10 BOOKS FOR FALLIt'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 in New York, not all of them have had favorable impressions. Addressing an endlessly appealing subject, Walking New York is a study of twelve American writers and several British writers who walked the streets of New York and wrote about their impressions of the city in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.Seen through the eyes of Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, William Dean Howells, Jacob Riis, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, James Weldon Johnson, Alfred Kazin, Elizabeth Hardwick, Colson Whitehead, and Teju Cole, almost all the works in Walking New York are about Manhattan, with only Whitman and Kazin writing about Brooklyn. Though the writers were often irritated, disturbed, and occasionally shocked by what they saw on their walks, they were still fascinated by the city William Dean Howells called "splendidly and sordidly commercial" and Cynthia Ozick called "faithfully inconstant, magnetic, man-made, unnatural-the synthetic sublime."In this idiosyncratic guidebook to New York, celebrated writers ruminate on questions that are still hotly debated to this day: the pros and cons of capitalism and the impact of immigration. Many imply that New York is a bewildering text that is hard to make sense of. Returning to New York after an absence of two decades, Henry James loathed many things about "bristling" New York, while native New Yorker Walt Whitman both celebrated and criticized "Mannahatta" in his writings.Combining literary scholarship with urban studies, Walking New York reveals how this crowded, dirty, noisy, and sometimes ugly city gave these "restless analysts" plenty of fodder for their craft.
T1  - Walking New York :Reflections of American Writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole /
AU  - Miller, Stephen, 
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
JF  - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
CN  - PS255.N5
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
ID  - 1477675
KW  - American literature
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - Authors, English
KW  - City and town life in literature.
KW  - Libros electronicos.
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Narración de cuentos -- Argentina.
KW  - Short stories, Argentine.
KW  - Walking in literature.
KW  - Walking
KW  - History.
KW  - Literary Studies.
KW  - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA).
KW  - American writers.
KW  - Henry James.
KW  - Herman Melville.
KW  - Manhattan.
KW  - Stephen Crane.
KW  - Walt Whitman.
KW  - impact of immigration.
KW  - literary scholarship.
KW  - urban studies.
KW  - walkable cities.
KW  - walks in New York City.
SN  - 9780823263172
TI  - Walking New York :Reflections of American Writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole /
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