Central Park and the Melodramatic Imagination

Journal of Urban History

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 375-393

  Schenker, Heath M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

melodrama; New York; parks

Indexed keywords

ART; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PUBLIC SPACE; URBAN SOCIETY; URBAN HISTORY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038355289     PISSN: 00961442     EISSN: 15526771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0096144203029004001     Document Type: Article

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