New York City : Gilt Cage or Promised Land?:Representations of Urban Space in Edith Wharton and Anzia Yezierska.
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New York City : Gilt Cage or Promised Land?:Representations of Urban Space in Edith Wharton and Anzia Yezierska.
Yazar:
Billeter Sauter, Irene.
ISBN:
9783035101973
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1 online resource (302 pages)
Seri:
Europäische Hochschulschriften ; v.465
Europäische Hochschulschriften
İçerik:
Contents -- Illustrations - 7 -- Preface - 11 -- Acknowledgments - 13 -- List of Abbreviations - 15 -- 1. Introduction - 17 -- 2. Cityscape in Edith Wharton's and Anzia Yezierska'sFictional New York - 31 -- 2.1. The Geography of City Space - 35 -- 2.2. The City, Viewed from Without - 45 -- 2.3. Up on the Roof or Looking Down on the City - 79 -- 2.4. City Streets - 85 -- 2.5. The City Crowd - 109 -- 2.6. Pavement, Gutter, and Below Street Level - 119 -- 3. New York City Interiors inEdith Wharton and Anzia Yezierska - 127 -- 3.1. Versions of the Home:Tenements, Apartments, Estates, and Hotels - 131 -- 3.2. Opera Boxes - 165 -- 3.3. Mirrors - 177 -- 3.4. Libraries - 197 -- 3.5. Kitchens - 223 -- 4. Conclusion: "Gilt Cage" or "Promised Land":Resignation and Hope in the City - 235 -- 5. Appendix:A Brief History of New York City until 1900 - 255 -- 5.1. Earliest Evidence: 1524-1621 - 255 -- 5.2. The First Deal: Indian Real Estate for Dutch Money:1621-1664 - 256 -- 5.3. New Amsterdam Becomes New York Under British Rule:1664-1783 - 258 -- 5.4. Commerce Rules: 1783-1843 - 262 -- 5.5. Manufacturing Takes Over, Immigration Takes Off:1844-1879 - 268 -- 5.6. Corporate New York City: 1880-1900 - 278 -- Bibliography - 283 -- 1. Primary Literature - 283 -- 2. Secondary Literature - 284 -- 2.1. Critical Literature on Edith Wharton - 284 -- 2.2. Critical Literature on Anzia Yezierska - 286 -- 2.3. New York City: History, Social History,Architecture, and Literature - 288 -- 2.4. Other Reference Works and Literature Consulted - 291 -- Index - 297.
Özet:
New York City plays a significant, albeit previously neglected, role in the urban narratives of Edith Wharton and Anzia Yezierska at a time when the city was as new and central to the American experience as had been the Western frontier. New York City was the epicenter of the late 19th and early 20th century world at large; its constantly shifting landscape caused by urbanization, industrialization, women's emancipation, and immigration found its representation in the extremes of the urban spectrum on Fifth Avenue and the Lower East Side. Narrating the domestic sphere from widely diverging vantage points, native Edith Wharton and immigrant Anzia Yezierska present a polarized city where domesticity is always a primal and existential concern. By analyzing exterior and interior city representations in Wharton's and Yezierska's New York literature, the author shows how urban space greatly affects, influences and alters questions of identity, assimilation, acculturation, and alienation in protagonists who cannot escape their respective settings. Edith Wharton's millionaire heroines are framed by conspicuous consumption in the gilt interiors of their New York City while Anzia Yezierska's immigrant protagonists hunger for a Promised Land of knowledge and learning in the perpetually changing urban landscape.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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