The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York

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Summary

A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of the city from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.

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List of illustrations	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Chronology	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
From British outpost to American metropolis	p. 10
Dutch New York from Irving to Wharton	p. 27
The city on stage	p. 42
Melville, at sea in the city	p. 58
Whitman's urbanism	p. 76
The early literature of New York's moneyed class	p. 90
Writing Brooklyn	p. 109
New York and the novel of manners	p. 121
Immigrants, politics, and the popular cultures of tolerance	p. 134
Performing Greenwich Village bohemianism	p. 146
African American literary movements	p. 160
New York's cultures of print	p. 176
From poetry to punk in the East Village	p. 189
Staging lesbian and gay New York	p. 202
Emergent ethnic literatures	p. 218
Epilogue: Nostalgia and counter-nostalgia in New York City writing	p. 232
Further reading	p. 241
Index	p. 244
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