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This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.

A lucidly written analysis of urban literature and evolving residential architecture.

Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in Ame

Urban Underworlds is an exploration of city spaces, pathologized identities, lurid fears, and American literature. Surveying one hundred years of history, and f

She shows that images both from Melville and from popular sources of the time represented New York variously as Capital, Labyrinth, City of Man, and City of God