Review Essay: Specters of the City: STEVEN CONN AND MAX PAGE, editors, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, pp. xi, 412, index, illustrations, $59.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. SAMUEL DELANEY, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. New York: New York University Press, 1999, pp. xviii, 203, $19 paper. CHRISTOPHE DEN TANDT, The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp. xiv, 2

Several books are analyzed, including the following: Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape, edited by Steven and Max Page; Samuel Delaney's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue; Christopher Den Tandt's The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism; and James Donald's Imagining the Modern City. There were also books written/edited by Madhu Dubey, James R. Giles, Richard Lehan and David L. Ulin.