In pursuit of Gotham : culture and commerce in New York /

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Author / Creator:	Taylor, William R. (William Robert), 1922-2014
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Description:	xxviii, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	American literature -- New York (N.Y.) -- History and criticism. American literature. Civilization. Intellectual life. Literature. New York (N.Y.) -- Civilization. New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life New York (N.Y.) -- In literature New York (State) -- New York. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1310440

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ISBN:	0195037480 : $24.95
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-199) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Psyching Out the City
2. New York and the Origin of the Skyline: The Commercial City as Visual Text
3. The Evolution of Public Space: The Commercial City as Showcase
4. Culture and Architecture: Aesthetic Tensions in the Shaping of New York (with Thomas Bender)
5. Launching a Commercial Culture: Newspaper, Magazine, and Popular Novel as Urban Baedekers
6. Times Square as a National Event
7. Walter Lippmann in Vanity Fair
8. The Power of the Word: Greenwich Village Writers and the Golden Fleece
9. The Man Who Would Say (Almost) Anything: H. L. Mencken, New York and the Great Opinion Factory
10. A Place That Words Built: Broadway, Damon Runyon, and the Slanguage of Lobster Alley.

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