Well, we’ve dropped the manuscript for our Cambridge Companion to the Literatures of New York City — the size of a ream of paper — in the mail to our editor. [Insert huge sigh of relief.] We were only a couple weeks late, and that owing to a few slow permissions and illustration requests. We’re happy to say how very pleased we are with the volume, which should be out early next year.
Here’s what the final table of contents looks like; it differs in minor details from the earlier one, and we’ve added one contributor since then:
Cyrus R. K. Patell INTRODUCTION
1 Robert Lawson-Peebles FROM
BRITISH OUTPOST TO AMERICAN METROPOLIS
2
TO WHARTON
3 Bryan Waterman THE
CITY ON STAGE
4 Thomas Augst MELVILLE,
AT SEA IN THE CITY
5 Lytle Shaw WHITMAN’S
URBANISM
6 Caleb Crain HIGH
LIFE, WITH A GLANCE AT THE LOW: THE EARLY LITERATURE OF NEW YORK’S MONEYED
CLASS
7 Martha Nadell WRITING
8 Sarah Wilson
“BEAUFORT’S BASTARDS”: NEW YORK NOVELS OF MANNERS
9 Eric Homberger CITY
OF
POLITICS AND THE POPULAR CULTURES OF TOLERANCE
10 Melissa Bradshaw PERFORMING
11 Thulani
Davis BLACK
AFRICAN AMERICAN MOVEMENTS
12 Trysh Travis NEW
YORK’S CULTURES OF PRINT
13 Daniel Kane FROM
POETRY TO PUNK IN THE
14 Robin Bernstein STAGING
LESBIAN AND GAY
15 Cyrus R. K. Patell EMERGENT
ETHNIC LITERATURES
Bryan Waterman EPILOGUE:
“THE MAGIC OF THIS BROKEN WORLD”: NOSTALGIA AND COUNTER-NOSTALGIA IN
Not wanting it published, really, but just saying hi … I dropped your Companion’s companion (Los Angeles) in the mail last week.
I look forward to seeing the CCLNY.