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Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue The Sign of Ishmael
1 Everything Possible Nothing Real: Electric Signs of America, 1890–1925
2 Signlight and Moonlight in The Great Gatsby
3 How Do I Get to Broadway? Reading Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer Sign
4 Neon Light in August: Faulkner’s Quarrel with Modernity
5 Broadway by Night by Hollywood: Fitzgerald Revisited
6 Search for the Originary Sign of Noir: Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd”
7 The Double Nihilation of the Neon: Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles
8 Neon Lights Around Everything: West’s “West,” Hitler’s “Empire,” Postmodernism’s “Reality”
9 Under the Neon Rainbow: Nelson Algren’s Chicago
10 Sad Paradise: Signs of Beat America
11 Redbrick and Neon: Kerouac’s Legend of Duluoz
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
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