Rambles about Historic Brooklyn

Rambles about Historic Brooklyn
Title Rambles about Historic Brooklyn PDF eBook
Author Brooklyn Trust Company
Publisher
Pages 76
Release 1916
Genre Architecture, Domestic
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The Pictorial History of Brooklyn

The Pictorial History of Brooklyn
Title The Pictorial History of Brooklyn PDF eBook
Author Martin Henry Weyrauch
Publisher
Pages 110
Release 1916
Genre Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
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Midnight Rambles

Midnight Rambles
Title Midnight Rambles PDF eBook
Author David J. Goodwin
Publisher Fordham Univ Press
Pages 303
Release 2023-11-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1531504434

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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.

Flatbush

Flatbush
Title Flatbush PDF eBook
Author Nedda C. Allbray
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 164
Release 2004
Genre History
ISBN 9780738524535

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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.

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Title The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record PDF eBook
Author Richard Henry Greene
Publisher
Pages 512
Release 1917
Genre New York (State)
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Old Brooklyn Heights

Old Brooklyn Heights
Title Old Brooklyn Heights PDF eBook
Author Clay Lancaster
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 264
Release 1979-01-01
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780486238722

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Authoritative street-by-street architectural guide to over 600 houses, buildings in city's first Historic District. 88 illus.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Title Bulletin PDF eBook
Author Adelphi University. Division of Graduate Studies
Publisher
Pages 740
Release 1913
Genre
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