city and town life in literature

A collection of urban articles, essays, interviews, and poems.

Presents James Joyce's vignettes of everyday life in Dublin, Ireland in the early twentieth century, and includes Joyce's correspondence with his publisher about the stories, and a selection of criticism and commentary.

Presents a critical analysis of the works of twentieth-century African-American poet, Gwendolyn Brooks between 1945 and 1960, and examines her poems that depict racism and class struggles in the urban ghetto community.

A visual interpretation of the nineteenth century London of Dickens' time.

Contains the text of the novel by Sherwood Anderson along with his letters and memoirs, as well as several critical reviews by Anderson's contemporaries.

Collection of 115 poems by sixty poets representing more than twenty cities across the United States.

A study of Sherwood Anderson's 1919 novel, "Winesburg, Ohio", with critical commentary and an analysis of the text.