October cities [electronic resource] : the redevelopment of urban literature / Carlo Rotella.

Based on the author's thesis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-352) and index.

Exposition: the story of decline -- The old neighborhood: industrial Chicago and its literatures -- Closing time: The man with the golden arm -- After the end: the story of decline as act one -- Exposition: South Street and the neighborhood novel -- Urban village and black metropolis: John Fury and South Street -- The literature of postindustrial South Street -- Exposition: that separate world -- Violence, the second ghetto, and the logic of urban crisis -- Checkpoint Frederick Douglass: Warren Miller and the boundaries of the ghetto -- The box of groceries and the omnibus tour: Manchild in the promised land -- The war of position.

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