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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Miller, Stephen (1941-....)
Titre(s) : Walking New York [Texte imprimé] : reflections of American writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole / Stephen Miller
Publication : New York : Empire state editions, 2015
Description matérielle : xix, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index
"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 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" ; "Walking New York is an idiosyncratic
guide to New York--a study of twelve American writers who walked in New York and wrote
about their impressions of the city in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry"
Sujet(s) : Littérature américaine -- New York (États-Unis ; État) -- New York (N.Y., États-Unis)
Écrivains américains -- Résidences et lieux familiers -- New York (États-Unis ; État) -- New York (N.Y., États-Unis)
Écrivains anglais -- Voyages -- New York (États-Unis ; État) -- New York (N.Y., États-Unis)
Littérature et société -- New York (États-Unis ; État) -- New York (N.Y., États-Unis)
New York (N.Y., États-Unis) -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780823263158 (hardback). - ISBN 0823263150 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb442418537
Notice n° :
FRBNF44241853
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