October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature (Paperback)

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction: The City of Feeling and the City of Fact 
PART ONE: The Decline and Fall of the Old Neighborhood
1 Exposition: The Story of Decline 
2 The Old Neighborhood: Industrial Chicago and Its Literatures 
3 Closing Time: The Man with the Golden Arm 
4 After the End: The Story of Decline as Act One 
PART TWO: The Neighborhood Novel and the Transformation of the Inner City
5 Exposition: South Street and the Neighborhood Novel 
6 Urban Village and Black Metropolis: John Fury and South Street 
7 The Literature of Postindustrial South Street 
Part Three The City of Feeling in Crisis
8 Exposition: That Separate World 
9 Violence, the Second Ghetto, and the Logic of Urban Crisis 
10 Checkpoint Frederick Douglass: Warren Miller and the Boundaries of the Ghetto 
11 The Box of Groceries and the Omnibus Tour: Manchild in the Promised Land 
12 The War of Position 
Conclusion: Notes from a Cultural Sea Change 
Notes 
Index