New York City: «Gilt Cage» or «Promised Land»?
Representations of Urban Space in Edith Wharton and Anzia Yezierska
Samenvatting
By analyzing exterior and interior city representations in Wharton's and Yezierska's New York literature, the author shows how urban space greatly affects, influences and alters questions of identity, assimilation, acculturation, and alienation in protagonists who cannot escape their respective settings.

