Main entry:

Rotella, Carlo, 1964-

Title & Author:

October cities : the redevelopment of urban literature / Carlo Rotella.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.

Description:

xii, 358 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Based on the author's thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-352) and index.
Exposition: the story of decline -- The old neighborhood: industrial Chicago and its literatures -- Closing time: The man with the golden arm -- After the end: the story of decline as act one -- Exposition: South Street and the neighborhood novel -- Urban village and black metropolis: John Fury and South Street -- The literature of postindustrial South Street -- Exposition: that separate world -- Violence, the second ghetto, and the logic of urban crisis -- Checkpoint Frederick Douglass: Warren Miller and the boundaries of the ghetto -- The box of groceries and the omnibus tour: Manchild in the promised land -- The war of position.

Resources:
Table of contents
Available through UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
University of Alberta Access
from EBSCO

ISBN:

0520207637 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520207639 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520211448 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520211445 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0585057346
9780585057347

Subject:

Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 Criticism and interpretation.
Brown, Claude, 1937-2002 Criticism and interpretation.
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 Criticism and interpretation.
Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 Criticism and interpretation.
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 Criticism and interpretation.
Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981.
Brown, Claude, 1937-2002
Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979.
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Philadelphia PA
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
American literature 20th century History and criticism.
City and town life in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
Littérature américaine 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
Villes dans la littérature.
American literature.
Großstadt
Literatur
Stadt
Stadtentwicklung
Amerikaans.
Letterkunde.
Steden.
Vie urbaine Dans la littérature.
Villes Dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine 20e siècle Thèmes, motifs.
Chicago, Ill.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Chicago (Ill.) Dans la littérature.
Philadelphie (Pa.) Dans la littérature.
New York (N.Y.) Dans la littérature.
New York (N.Y.)
USA.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism

Form/genre:

Theses.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 202041
Call No.: PS228.C54 R6 1998
Status: Available