Tolerable entertainment : Herman Melville and professionalism in antebellum New York / by Evelev, John, 1965-

On the slain collegians : selections from the poems of Herman Melville / by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

Walking New York : reflections of American writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole / by Miller, Stephen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- Ac know ledg ments -- Refl ections on Walking -- Britons Visiting New York -- Walt Whitman -- Herman Melville -- illiam Dean Howells -- Jacob Riis -- Henry James -- tephen Crane -- Theodore Dreiser -- James Weldon Johnson -- Alfred Kazin -- Elizabeth Hardwick -- Colson Whitehead and Teju Cole -- The Synthetic Sublime -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Walking New York : reflections of American writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole / by Miller, Stephen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Reflections on walking : from Plato to Baudelaire -- Britons visiting New York : Fanny Trollope, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens -- Walt Whitman : magnetic Mannahatta -- Herman Melville : lost in the city -- William Dean Howells : Boston vs. …”
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The Erie Canal reader, 1790-1950 /

Table of Contents: “…Charles Giles -- Travels in North America / Basil Hall -- Men and manners in America / Thomas Hamilton -- Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope -- Retrospect of Western travel / Harriet Martineau -- "The Canal boat" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The poetry of travelling in the United States / Caroline Gilman -- "The canal boat" / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Moby-Dick / Herman Melville -- "The aged pilot man" / Samuel L. Clemens -- "The raging canal" ; popular song -- Their wedding journey / W.D. …”
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Walking New York : reflections of American writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole / by Miller, Stephen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Walt Whitman: Magnetic Mannahatta -- 4. Herman Melville: Lost in the City -- 5. William Dean Howells: Boston vs. …”

The Cambridge companion to the literature of New York /

Young America : the flowering of democracy in New York City / by Widmer, Edward L.

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