Ross Wilson is Director of Liberal Arts at the University of Nottingham. He studies the modern history, heritage and memory of New York with a specific concern for how people form a sense of place within the city in the past and in the present. His work includes New York and the First World War: Shaping an American City (2015).

'The collection is too eclectic and wide-ranging to serve as a reference resource, but all the essays are thoughtful, well written, and provocative. The study of literature through the lens of space and place is a significant critical trend, one to which this book is an important contribution … Highly recommended.' J. W. Miller, Choice

• Introduction; 1. Introduction: a history of New York literature Ross Wilson; Part I. Adaptation and Adjustment: 2. Changing culture: the contribution of European immigrants to New York City literature, 1870–1940 Martino Marazzi; 3. Agitators and intellectuals: radical Jewish storytellers Catherine Morley; 4. The mirror of the West: Arab-American literature in early twentieth century New York City Raphael Cormack; 5. Writing the Big Apple in Chinese and Chinese American literature Pin-chia Feng; Part II. Innovation and Inspiration: 6. Sharing social space: New York as a city of the housed and unhoused Dorothea Löbbermann; 7. Health reform in the mid-nineteenth-century New York periodical press David Dowling; 8. Neoliberal New York: contemporary literature and the politics of urban redevelopment Catalina Neculai; 9. The marvellous and the mundane: ekphrastic New York novels Monika Gehlawat; Part III. Identity and Place: 10. Growing up in Manhattan: children's literature and New York City Pádraic Whyte; 11. Wartime reading in the city, 1914–1918 Ross Wilson; 12. The periodical and the flâneur in early New York writing Peter Ferry; 13. Multiple voices: New York City poetry Rona Cran; 14. The New York School: toward a definition Yasmine Shamma; Part IV. Tragedy and Hope: 15. The spatial drama of hope and desire in contemporary New York City literature Bart Eeckhout; 16. New and Old Amsterdam in twenty-first century fiction Maria Lauret; 17. Beats, black culture and bohemianism in mid-twentieth century New York City Douglas Field; 18. 'The sixth borough': imagining New York after 9/11 Birgit Däwes; 19. Walking the modern city: emotion and space in New York Nathalie Cochoy; 20. Afterword Lisa Keller.

Ross Wilson is Director of Liberal Arts at the University of Nottingham. He studies the modern history, heritage and memory of New York with a specific concern for how people form a sense of place within the city in the past and in the present. His work includes New York and the First World War: Shaping an American City (2015).

'The collection is too eclectic and wide-ranging to serve as a reference resource, but all the essays are thoughtful, well written, and provocative. The study of literature through the lens of space and place is a significant critical trend, one to which this book is an important contribution … Highly recommended.' J. W. Miller, Choice

• Introduction; 1. Introduction: a history of New York literature Ross Wilson; Part I. Adaptation and Adjustment: 2. Changing culture: the contribution of European immigrants to New York City literature, 1870–1940 Martino Marazzi; 3. Agitators and intellectuals: radical Jewish storytellers Catherine Morley; 4. The mirror of the West: Arab-American literature in early twentieth century New York City Raphael Cormack; 5. Writing the Big Apple in Chinese and Chinese American literature Pin-chia Feng; Part II. Innovation and Inspiration: 6. Sharing social space: New York as a city of the housed and unhoused Dorothea Löbbermann; 7. Health reform in the mid-nineteenth-century New York periodical press David Dowling; 8. Neoliberal New York: contemporary literature and the politics of urban redevelopment Catalina Neculai; 9. The marvellous and the mundane: ekphrastic New York novels Monika Gehlawat; Part III. Identity and Place: 10. Growing up in Manhattan: children's literature and New York City Pádraic Whyte; 11. Wartime reading in the city, 1914–1918 Ross Wilson; 12. The periodical and the flâneur in early New York writing Peter Ferry; 13. Multiple voices: New York City poetry Rona Cran; 14. The New York School: toward a definition Yasmine Shamma; Part IV. Tragedy and Hope: 15. The spatial drama of hope and desire in contemporary New York City literature Bart Eeckhout; 16. New and Old Amsterdam in twenty-first century fiction Maria Lauret; 17. Beats, black culture and bohemianism in mid-twentieth century New York City Douglas Field; 18. 'The sixth borough': imagining New York after 9/11 Birgit Däwes; 19. Walking the modern city: emotion and space in New York Nathalie Cochoy; 20. Afterword Lisa Keller.

Ross Wilson is Director of Liberal Arts at the University of Nottingham. He studies the modern history, heritage and memory of New York with a specific concern for how people form a sense of place within the city in the past and in the present. His work includes New York and the First World War: Shaping an American City (2015).

'The collection is too eclectic and wide-ranging to serve as a reference resource, but all the essays are thoughtful, well written, and provocative. The study of literature through the lens of space and place is a significant critical trend, one to which this book is an important contribution … Highly recommended.' J. W. Miller, Choice

• Introduction; 1. Introduction: a history of New York literature Ross Wilson; Part I. Adaptation and Adjustment: 2. Changing culture: the contribution of European immigrants to New York City literature, 1870–1940 Martino Marazzi; 3. Agitators and intellectuals: radical Jewish storytellers Catherine Morley; 4. The mirror of the West: Arab-American literature in early twentieth century New York City Raphael Cormack; 5. Writing the Big Apple in Chinese and Chinese American literature Pin-chia Feng; Part II. Innovation and Inspiration: 6. Sharing social space: New York as a city of the housed and unhoused Dorothea Löbbermann; 7. Health reform in the mid-nineteenth-century New York periodical press David Dowling; 8. Neoliberal New York: contemporary literature and the politics of urban redevelopment Catalina Neculai; 9. The marvellous and the mundane: ekphrastic New York novels Monika Gehlawat; Part III. Identity and Place: 10. Growing up in Manhattan: children's literature and New York City Pádraic Whyte; 11. Wartime reading in the city, 1914–1918 Ross Wilson; 12. The periodical and the flâneur in early New York writing Peter Ferry; 13. Multiple voices: New York City poetry Rona Cran; 14. The New York School: toward a definition Yasmine Shamma; Part IV. Tragedy and Hope: 15. The spatial drama of hope and desire in contemporary New York City literature Bart Eeckhout; 16. New and Old Amsterdam in twenty-first century fiction Maria Lauret; 17. Beats, black culture and bohemianism in mid-twentieth century New York City Douglas Field; 18. 'The sixth borough': imagining New York after 9/11 Birgit Däwes; 19. Walking the modern city: emotion and space in New York Nathalie Cochoy; 20. Afterword Lisa Keller.