Author: Brooklyn Trust Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Rambles about Historic Brooklyn
Author: Brooklyn Trust Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Pictorial History of Brooklyn
Author: Martin Henry Weyrauch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Midnight Rambles
Author: David J. Goodwin
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 1531504434
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
A micro-biography of horror fiction’s most influential author and his love–hate relationship with New York City. By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft resigned himself to the likelihood that his writing would be forgotten. Today, Lovecraft stands alongside J. R. R. Tolkien as the most influential genre writer of the twentieth century. His reputation as an unreformed racist and bigot, however, leaves readers to grapple with his legacy. Midnight Rambles explores Lovecraft’s time in New York City, a crucial yet often overlooked chapter in his life that shaped his literary career and the inextricable racism in his work. Initially, New York stood as a place of liberation for Lovecraft. During the brief period between 1924 and 1926 when he lived there, Lovecraft joined a creative community and experimented with bohemian living in the publishing and cultural capital of the United States. He also married fellow writer Sonia H. Greene, a Ukrainian-Jewish émigré in the fashion industry. However, cascading personal setbacks and his own professional ineptitude soured him on New York. As Lovecraft became more frustrated, his xenophobia and racism became more pronounced. New York’s large immigrant population and minority communities disgusted him, and this mindset soon became evident in his writing. Many of his stories from this era are infused with racial and ethnic stereotypes and nativist themes, most notably his overtly racist short story, “The Horror at Red Hook,” set in Red Hook, Brooklyn. His personal letters reveal an even darker bigotry. Author David J. Goodwin presents a chronological micro-biography of Lovecraft’s New York years, emphasizing Lovecraft’s exploration of the city environment, the greater metropolitan region, and other locales and how they molded him as a writer and as an individual. Drawing from primary sources (letters, memoirs, and published personal reflections) and secondary sources (biographies and scholarship), Midnight Rambles develops a portrait of a talented and troubled author and offers insights into his unsettling beliefs on race, ethnicity, and immigration.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 1531504434
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
A micro-biography of horror fiction’s most influential author and his love–hate relationship with New York City. By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft resigned himself to the likelihood that his writing would be forgotten. Today, Lovecraft stands alongside J. R. R. Tolkien as the most influential genre writer of the twentieth century. His reputation as an unreformed racist and bigot, however, leaves readers to grapple with his legacy. Midnight Rambles explores Lovecraft’s time in New York City, a crucial yet often overlooked chapter in his life that shaped his literary career and the inextricable racism in his work. Initially, New York stood as a place of liberation for Lovecraft. During the brief period between 1924 and 1926 when he lived there, Lovecraft joined a creative community and experimented with bohemian living in the publishing and cultural capital of the United States. He also married fellow writer Sonia H. Greene, a Ukrainian-Jewish émigré in the fashion industry. However, cascading personal setbacks and his own professional ineptitude soured him on New York. As Lovecraft became more frustrated, his xenophobia and racism became more pronounced. New York’s large immigrant population and minority communities disgusted him, and this mindset soon became evident in his writing. Many of his stories from this era are infused with racial and ethnic stereotypes and nativist themes, most notably his overtly racist short story, “The Horror at Red Hook,” set in Red Hook, Brooklyn. His personal letters reveal an even darker bigotry. Author David J. Goodwin presents a chronological micro-biography of Lovecraft’s New York years, emphasizing Lovecraft’s exploration of the city environment, the greater metropolitan region, and other locales and how they molded him as a writer and as an individual. Drawing from primary sources (letters, memoirs, and published personal reflections) and secondary sources (biographies and scholarship), Midnight Rambles develops a portrait of a talented and troubled author and offers insights into his unsettling beliefs on race, ethnicity, and immigration.
RAMBLES ABT HISTORIC BROOKLYN
Author: Brooklyn Trust Company
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781373668998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781373668998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Old Brooklyn Heights
Author: Clay Lancaster
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486238722
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Authoritative street-by-street architectural guide to over 600 houses, buildings in city's first Historic District. 88 illus.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486238722
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Authoritative street-by-street architectural guide to over 600 houses, buildings in city's first Historic District. 88 illus.
Brooklyn
Author: Thomas J. Campanella
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691208611
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
A major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th century to today.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691208611
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
A major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th century to today.
The Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, Counties of Nassau and Suffolk, Long Island, New York, 1609-1924
Author: Henry Isham Hazelton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Historic Houses of Early America
Author: Elise Lathrop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A record of historic houses by towns and states.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A record of historic houses by towns and states.
The City of Brooklyn, 1865-1898
Author: Harold Coffin Syrett
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press ; London : P.S. King & son, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press ; London : P.S. King & son, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Flatbush
Author: Nedda C. Allbray
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738524535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The cultural and ethnic flavors of Flatbush, Brooklyn have changed over these many years, from seventeenth-century Dutch to eastern European and Jewish, and the present Caribbean influence. Over time, small, rich farms run by Patrician families gave way to the dignified garden homes of Victorian Flatbush when the economy could no longer support farming. Through annexation by Brooklyn, development of the railroad and trolleys (which inspired the name of baseball's famed Trolley Dodgers), and the drain of suburban flight, Flatbush residents actively sought to keep their town a place to call home.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738524535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The cultural and ethnic flavors of Flatbush, Brooklyn have changed over these many years, from seventeenth-century Dutch to eastern European and Jewish, and the present Caribbean influence. Over time, small, rich farms run by Patrician families gave way to the dignified garden homes of Victorian Flatbush when the economy could no longer support farming. Through annexation by Brooklyn, development of the railroad and trolleys (which inspired the name of baseball's famed Trolley Dodgers), and the drain of suburban flight, Flatbush residents actively sought to keep their town a place to call home.