Selected Bibliography: Books

Baritz, Loren. City on a hill; a history of ideas and myths in America. NY: Wiley 1964. E169.1 .B225

Barth, Gunther P. City people: the rise of modern city culture in nineteenth-century America. NY: Oxford University Press, 1980. HT123 .B297

Blumin, Stuart M. The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989.

Brand, Dana. The spectator and the city in nineteenth-century American literature. NY: Cambridge UP, 1991. PS217 .C57 B73

Bronner, Simon J. ed. American Material Culture and Folklife: A Prologue and Dialogue. Ann Arbor, MI: Univ. Microfilms Internat. Research, 1985.

Bryfogle, R. Charles. City in print: a bibliography. Agincourt, Ont.: General Learning P, 1974. HT151 .B69x

- - -. City in print; a bibliography. Supplement. Tucson, Ariz: Dawson and Company,1975. HT151 .B692x

Ciucci, Giorgio. et. al. The American City. Tr. Barbara Luigia. Cambridge: MIT P, 1979.

Clapp, James A. The city, a dictionary of quotable thought on cities and urban life. New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1984. HT111 .C576

Cook, David M. and Craig G. Swauger. The small town in American literature. NY: Harper & Row, 1977. PE1122 .C59

Dunlap, George A. The city in the American novel, 1789-1900; a study of American novels portraying contemporary conditions in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. NY: Russell & Russell, 1965. PS374.C5 D8

Festa-McCormick, Diana. The city as catalyst: a study of ten novels. Rutherford N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1979. PN3352.C5 F4

Gandal, Keith. The virtues of the vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the spectacle of the slum. NY: Oxford UP, 1997. PS1449 .C85 M334

Hakutani, Yoshinobu, and Robert Butler. eds. The city in African-American literature. Madison: Associated UP, 1995. PS169 .C57 C58

Henderson, Mary C. The city and the theatre; New York playhouses from Bowling Green to Times Square. Clifton, N.J.: J. T. White 1973. PN2277 .N5 H4

Herron, Ima H. The small town in American drama. Dallas: Southern Methodist UP, 1969. PS338.S6 H4

Hurm, Gerd. Fragmented Urban Images: The American City in Modern Fiction from Stephen Crane to Thomas Pynchon. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1991.

Jakle, John A. The American small town: twentieth-century place images. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1982. E169 .J24

Kramer, Simon P, and Frederick L. Holborn. eds. The city in American life; a historical anthology. NY: Putnam 1970. HT123 .K73

Love, Glen A. New Americans: the westerner and the modern experience in the American novel. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1982. PS374.W4 L6

McShane, Clay. Down the asphalt path: the automobile and the American city. NY: Columbia UP, 1994. HE5623 .M35

Mickelson, Joel C. ed. Images of the American City in the Arts. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1978.

O'Connell, Shaun. Imagining Boston: a literary landscape. Boston: Beacon P, 1990. PS255 .B6 O25

Pindell, Terry. A good place to live: America's last migration. NY: H. Holt and Co., 1996. E169.04 .P55

Schlesinger, Arthur M. The rise of the city, 1878-1898. NY: Macmillan, 1933. E169.1 .H67 v.10

Smith, Carl S. Chicago and the American literary imagination, 1880-1920. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984. PS285 .C47 S6

Stimpson, Catharine R. ed. Women and the American city. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981. HT123 .W55

Stout, Janis P. Sodoms in Eden: the city in American fiction before 1860. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976. PS374 C5 S7

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Buncombe, Marie H. "From Harlem to Brooklyn: The NY Scene in the Fiction of Meriwether, Petry, and Marshall." MAWA Review 1.1 (Sprg 1982): 16-19.

Butler, Robert. "The City as Psychological Frontier in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Charles Johnson's Faith and the Good Thing." The City in African-American Literature. Eds. Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert Butler. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1995. 123-37.

Clarke, Graham. ed. The American City: Literary and Cultural Perspectives. NY: St. Martin's, 1988.

Andrews, Malcolm. "Walt Whitman and the American City." 179-197.

Bolt, Christine. "The American City: Nightmare, Dream, or Irreducible Paradox." 13-35.

Claridge, Henry. "Chicago: 'The classical center of American materialism'." 86-104.

Clarke, Graham. "A 'sublime and atrocious' Spectacle: New York and Iconography of Manhattan Island." 36-61.

Clarke, Graham. "'The great wrong place': Los Angeles as Urban Milieu." 124-145.

Goldman, Arnold. "Life and Death in New Orleans." 146-178.

Hurstfield, Julian G. "The Truths of Washington, D.C." 105-123.

Hutchinson, Stuart."Henry James: The American City and the Structure of Experience." 198-216.

Lee, A. Robert. "Harlem on My Mind: Fictions of a Black Metropolis." 62-85.

Cowan, Michael. "Walkers in the Street: American Writers and the Modern City." Prospects 6 (1981): 281-311.

Goldstein, Laurence. ed. "Detroit: An American City." Michigan Quarterly Review 25.2 (Sprg 1986). Special Edition.

Massood, Paula J. "Mapping the Hood: The Genealogy of City Space in Boyz N the Hood and Menace II Society." Cinema Journal 35.2 (Wint 1996): 85-97.

Morris, R.A. "Classical Vision and the American City: Henry James's The Bostonians." New England Quarterly 46 (1973): 543-57.

Raban, Jonathan. "The Arts in America: One American City." New Review 1.4 (1974): 38-46.

Rosensweig, Daniel H. "Retro Accents and Carnival Pleasures: The Cultural Role of the Ballpark in the Renewing American City." DAI 60.6 (Dec 1999): DA9935079. Degree granting institution: U of Virginia, 1999

Siegel, Adrienne. "When Cities Were Fun: The Image of the American City in Popular Books, 1840-1870." Journal of Popular Culture 9 (1975): 573-82.

Vivion, Michael J. "Building an American City: The Fiction of Thornton Wilder." DAI 42.9 (Mar 1982): 4003A.

Weinthal, Edith C. "The Image of the City in Yezierska's Bread Givers." Studies in American Jewish Literature 13 (1994): 10-13.

White, Edward D. "The Backcountry and the City: The Presence of Rural and Native Cultures in Early American Literature." DAI 59.7 (Jan 1999): DA9838779. Degree granting institution: Cornell U, 1998

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