Antje Dallmann
(Editor)

Antje Dallmann teaches American literary and culture studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her fields of interest include the visual culture of the city, urban literature, postmodernity and cultural representation, and film studies. She has recently completed her dissertation on "ConspiraCity New York: Visibility, Invisibility, and Urban Paranoia as Motifs in American Urban Literature."

From Behind Bow Windows:
The Metropolis and Mental Life in 19th-Century American Fiction

Antje Dallmann analyzes depictions of the metropolis and of mental life in American literature of the 19th century. "From Behind Bow Windows" focuses on the view on the city in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and "Wakefield," Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener," Edgar Allen Poe's "The Man of the Crowd" and discusses, taking Paul Auster's New York Trilogy as an example in point, in which ways postmodernist literature is endebted to the ambivalent version of the urban the earlier texts elaborate.