Rambles about Historic Brooklyn
Title | Rambles about Historic Brooklyn PDF eBook |
Author | Brooklyn Trust Company |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN |
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
Title | Midnight Rambles PDF eBook |
Author | David J. Goodwin |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2023-11-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1531504434 |
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
Title | Flatbush PDF eBook |
Author | Nedda C. Allbray |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738524535 |
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
Title | The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Henry Greene |
Publisher | |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | New York (State) |
ISBN |
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 |
Authoritative street-by-street architectural guide to over 600 houses, buildings in city's first Historic District. 88 illus.
Bulletin
Title | Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | Adelphi University. Division of Graduate Studies |
Publisher | |
Pages | 740 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | |
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