Comments for Patell and Waterman’s History of New York

Comment on WNY Cahan by Patell and Waterman’s History of New York · Previously: Cahan

Patell and Waterman’s History of New York · Previously: Cahan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:02:21 +0000

[...] year Cyrus posted a general intro, including a sneak preview of Sarah Wilson’s essay on the New York novel of manners from our [...]

Comment on WNY Washington Square by Patell and Waterman’s History of New York · American Realists: James and Cahan

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:27:13 +0000

[...] parenthesis” from the third chapter of Washington Square, a passage that Bryan always calls to the attention of our students: Some three or four years before this Dr. Sloper had moved his gods up town, as [...]

Comment on WNY Wharton by Patell and Waterman’s History of New York · Wharton resources on PWHNY

Patell and Waterman’s History of New York · Wharton resources on PWHNY — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:36:42 +0000

[...] year, Cyrus offered a general intro to the novel and later posted about the archives of what Wharton refers to as the “new opera [...]

Comment on A cautionary note on “tolerance” in New Amsterdam by Karen E. H. Skinazi

Karen E. H. Skinazi — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:47:49 +0000

There’s a great section about African burial grounds in Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes. Have you read it? I taught it last semester, and the students really appreciated it. (Actually, that’s the Canadian title–in the US, the publishers asked Hill to retitle it, which he did, after the James Baldwin story–because using “Negroes” is too sensitive in the US, even though the title is quite important to the book.)

Comment on Washington Square and Washington Square by Patell and Waterman’s History of New York · Find your way around Washington Square

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:48:09 +0000

[...] run in your library.) Last year Cyrus posted an overview of the approach we’ve taken and I offered up the timeline I use in lecture to contrast the novel’s admittedly partial memory with a more verifiable set [...]

Comment on WNY Washington Square by Patell and Waterman’s History of New York · Find your way around Washington Square

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:35:29 +0000

[...] is worth digging up if you have access to the print run in your library.) Last year Cyrus posted an overview of the approach we’ve taken and I offered up the timeline I use in lecture to contrast the novel’s admittedly partial [...]

Comment on No dainty kid glove affair by Patell and Waterman’s History of New York · Find your way around Washington Square

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:41:39 +0000

[...] bisected a mixed-class leisure space, Vauxhall Gardens, and undoubtedly helped pave the way for the Astor Place Riots there only a few years later. All of this unrest the novel would push to its symbolic margins. The [...]

Comment on More on WSP tombstone by Patell and Waterman’s History of New York · Find your way around Washington Square

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:41:23 +0000

[...] we know about the actual history of the development of Washington Square — its origins as a Potter’s Field, the history of class conflict surrounding its development and renovation over time — and [...]

Comment on Percy Jackson in New York by buckydent

buckydent — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:59:32 +0000

No. It’s Poseiden in Coney Island!!

Comment on Prostitution exposed! (1839) by Patell and Waterman’s History of New York · Get your flash on

Patell and Waterman’s History of New York · Get your flash on — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:33:23 +0000

[...] his nativist newspaper, The Aurora. I mentioned Donna Dennis’s account of this legal history last week; you can also read key samples of this material in an anthology published a few years ago by some [...]