This is a study of the representation of the city in the modern novel.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Reading Cities11Partitioned Cities: Spatial and Temporal Walls29Isaac Bashevis Singer's Warsaw, The Family Moskat29Amos Oz's Jerusalem, My Michael482Divided Cities: Social Walls65Theodore Dreiser's Chicago and New York, Sister Carrie65Ralph Ellison's New York, Invisible Man853Translated Cities: Domesticating the Foreign111Henry James's Paris, The Ambassadors111Henry Roth's New York, Call it Sleep1364Estranged Cities: Defamiliarizing Home158James Joyce's Dublin, Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man158Virginia Woolt's London, Mrs. Dalloway181Epilogue: Metropolitan Musings203Notes209Bibliography228Index239