October Cities - The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (Paper)

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The City of Feeling and the City of Fact 1(18) Part One The Decline and Fall of the Old Neighborhood Exposition: The Story of Decline 19(21) The Old Neighborhood: Industrial Chicago and Its Literatures 40(26) Closing Time: The Man with the Golden Arm 66(25) After the End: The Story of Decline as Act One 91(28) Part Two The Neighborhood Novel and the Transformation of the Inner City Exposition: South Street and the Neighborhood Novel 119(23) Urban Village and Black Metropolis: John Fury and South Street 142(27) The Literature of Postindustrial South Street 169(36) Part Three The City of Feeling in Crisis Exposition: That Separate World 205(9) Violence, the Second Ghetto, and the Logic of Urban Crisis 214(24) Checkpoint Frederick Douglass: Warren Miller and the Boundaries of the Ghetto 238(31) The Box of Groceries and the Omnibus Tour: Manchild in the Promised Land 269(24) The War of Position 293(18) Conclusion: Notes from a Cultural Sea Change 311(14) Notes 325(28) Index 353