Book contents
- New York: A Literary History
- New York
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Adaptation and Adjustment
- Part II Innovation and Inspiration
- Chapter 6 Sharing Social Space
- Chapter 7 Health Reform in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York Periodical Press
- Chapter 8 Neoliberal New York
- Chapter 9 The Marvellous and the Mundane
- Part III Identity and Place
- Part IV Tragedy and Hope
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 7 - Health Reform in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York Periodical Press
from Part II - Innovation and Inspiration
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Book contents
- New York: A Literary History
- New York
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Adaptation and Adjustment
- Part II Innovation and Inspiration
- Chapter 6 Sharing Social Space
- Chapter 7 Health Reform in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York Periodical Press
- Chapter 8 Neoliberal New York
- Chapter 9 The Marvellous and the Mundane
- Part III Identity and Place
- Part IV Tragedy and Hope
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines gentirifcation within New York’s literature, through testimonies of loss, recollection, contestation, reflection and organised opposition. It establishes authenticity as the political project of those who are displaced from their own neighbourhoods, symbolically and spatially, at times violently. This study proposes a critical bird’s-eye-view of such testimonies, both non-fictional and fictional, in order to reinforce the argument that cultural scripts of urbanisation are as compelling and useful in our understanding of cities like New York.
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- New YorkA Literary History, pp. 94 - 106Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020