Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Maps ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xix
6. 1 Reflections on Walking: From Plato to Baudelaire 1
7. 2 Britons Visiting New York: Fanny Trollope, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens 10
8. 3 Walt Whitman: Magnetic Mannahatta 23
9. 4 Herman Melville: Lost in the City 43
10. 5 William Dean Howells: Boston vs. New York 59
11. 6 Jacob Riis: Walking for Reform 75
12. 7 Henry James: What to Make of the Bristling City 94
13. 8 Stephen Crane: Adventures in Poverty 113
14. 9 Theodore Dreiser: From Broadway to the Bowery 127
15. 10 James Weldon Johnson: A Black Man in Manhattan 145
16. 11 Alfred Kazin: Reveries of a Solitary Walker 162
17. 12 Elizabeth Hardwick: West Side Stories 178
18. 13 Colson Whitehead and Teju Cole: Disoriented, Deracinated, Exhilarated 195
19. 14 The Synthetic Sublime 205
20. Notes 211
21. Bibliography 235
22. Index 243