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...Barbara Eckstein Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans . By Julia Guarneri . Chicago, IL : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2017 . 330 pp. Cloth, $45.00 ; paper, $30.00 ; e-book available. Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape...

...Kevin R. McNamara © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 New York Nocturne: The City after Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850–1950 . By William Chapman Sharpe. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2008. xix, 402 pp. $35.00. New York and the Literary...

...Reginald Dyck Duke University Press 2006 A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago . By Richard Christiansen. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press. 2004. xvii, 317 pp. $29.95. Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919...

... 2008 Collections All Roads Lead to the American City . Ed. Peter Swirski. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press. 2007. 154 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $24.95. Brief Mention Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed. Christopher...

... American Episcopal Church, 1865–1900 . By Julius H. Bailey. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2005. xii, 151 pp. $59.95. Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City . By Craig D. Townsend. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 242 pp. $45.00. Book Reviews...

...Duncan Faherty Duke University Press 2007 Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America . By Jennifer J. Baker. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2005. x, 218 pp. $50.00. The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict...

...Stephanie Foote Duke University Press 2007 Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value . By Tom Lutz. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2004. vii, 226 pp. Paper, $19.95. At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930...

...Janet Dean [email protected] Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-creating the Frontier West . By Kevin Britz and Roger L. Nichols , Norman : Univ. of Oklahoma Press . 2018 . xiii, 266 pp. Cloth, $32.95 ; e-book available. Fictions of Western American...

... City, 1821 Luis Iglesias, Sonia Di Loreto, Jeffrey Scraba, and Sandra Young In 1821 a small theater opened in New York City, billing itself as the American Theatre but known to most New Yorkers only as the African Theatre. After playing with frequent interruptions...

...Jennifer Rae Greeson Duke University Press 2001 Jennifer Rae The ‘‘Mysteries and Miseries’’ of North Carolina: Greeson New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Incidents in the Life...

... . By Deborah Paes de Barros. New York: Peter Lang. 2004. 208 pp. Paper, $39.95. Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City . By Diane Chisholm. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. xvii, 353 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. Book Reviews New England’s Crises...

...Adam Sonstegard Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890–1940 . By Christoph Lindner . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2015 . xii, 228 pp. Cloth, $105.00 ; paper, $30.95 ; e-book available. The Language of Vision: Photography and Southern...

... ’n’ Roll . By Randall J. Stephens . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2018 . 337 pp. Cloth, $ 29.95 . “Do You Have A Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City . By Daniel Kane . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2017 . xii, 276 pp. Cloth, $ 90.00 ; paper, $ 30.00 ; e...

...Eden Osucha Duke University Press 2006 Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism . By Madhu Dubey. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. ix, 284 pp. Paper, $22.00. Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity . By E. Patrick Johnson. Durham, N.C...

... Orleans’s profound discontinuity from the United States in the wake of Hurricane Katrina—dominated the national conversation about the city’s suffering and recovery. This paper seeks to examine what Barbara Eckstein calls “claims for New Orleans’s exceptionalism,” considering theorizations of the city’s...

...Bo McMillan Abstract Early twentieth-century Black literature on the city from the likes of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Nella Larsen pondered questions of what it meant to be Black and urbane and also how to reformulate Black identity from a new position removed from the violent...

..., and Gregg Mitman describe as “community” ecology. Later, postwar urbanists such as Jane Jacobs would draw on the authority of community ecology to reckon with the physical and social transformations then being carried out within New York City's urban renewal programs. Offering scientific evidence...

... and decolonization issues in their fiction, they struggled to reconcile the coexistence of a colorblind and a colonial Paris. The two-faced city is located in the periphery of expatriate fiction, in Wright's lesser-known novel The Long Dream (1958) and its 1959 sequel, “Island of Hallucination,” an unpublished roman...

... narrative helps to demystify the nuances of urban spatiality and the range of socioeconomics that propel modern cities. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 public housing poverty space race urban fiction In his essay “Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter...

... voices of children, slaves, and other marginalized people. Duane recovers and analyzes the records of the New York African Free School in the 1810s and 1820s, an archive that features the work of the first generation of black children to inherit freedom in New York City. She argues that the scripted...