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.

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

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