Title & Author:

The American city : literary and cultural perspectives / edited by Graham Clarke.

Publication:

London : Vision Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Description:

223 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

Critical studies series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The American city : nightmare, dream, or irreducible paradox? / by Christine Bolt -- 2. A 'sublime and atrocious' spectacle : New York and the iconography of Manhattan Island / by Graham Clarke -- 3. Harlem on my mind : fictions of a Black metropolis / by A. Robert Lee -- 4. Chicago : 'the classical center of American materialism' / by Henry Claridge -- 5. The truths of Washington, D.C. / by Julian G. Hurstfield -- 6. 'The great wrong place" : Los Angeles as urban milieu / by Graham Clarke -- 7. Life and death in New Orleans / by Arnold Goldman -- 8. Walt Whitman and the American city / by Malcolm Andrews -- 9. Henry James : the American city and the structure of experience / by Stuart Hutchinson.

ISBN:

0312024207 (St. Martin's)
9780312024208 (St. Martin's)
0854781765
9780854781768

Subject:

American literature History and criticism.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns United States.
Cities and towns in literature.
City and town life United States.
American literature.
City and town life.
Villes dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine Histoire et critique.
Vie urbaine États-Unis.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
Villes États-Unis.
Littérature américaine.
Vie urbaine.
Cities and towns
Literatur
Stadt
Aufsatzsammlung
Stadt (Motiv)
United States
USA
English literature American writers, to 1985 - Critical studies

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Clarke, Graham, 1948-
Critical studies series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 50351
Call No.: ID:89-B9287
Status: Available