Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction: Reading Cities: 1. Cultural models of the city - whose city? 2. Narrative cartography, or the language of setting; 3. The modern urban novel: new blueprint for self and place; 4. The itinerary: Warsaw, Jerusalem, New York, Chicago, Paris, Dublin, and London; Part II. Partitioned Cities: Spatial and Temporal Walls: 5. Issac Bashevis Singer's The Family Moskat; 6. Amos Oz's My Michael; Part III. Divided Cities: Social Walls; 7. Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie; 8. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man; Part IV. Translated Cities: Domesticating the Foreign: 9. Henry James The Ambassadors ; 10. Henry Roth's Call It Sleep; Part V. Estranged Cities: Defamiliarizing Home: 11. James Joyce's Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man;12. Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway; Epilogue: Metropolitan musings; Works cited.