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Philadelphia stories : America's literature of race and freedom /
Samuel Otter's authoritative study considers the significance of geographical, social, and literary "place." It offers a model for thinking about the relationships between literature and history and among European American and African American writers. It challenges conventional narra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Mathew Carey, Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and the color of fever
- Ministers and criminals: Richard Allen, John Joyce, and Peter Matthias
- Benjamin Rush's heroic interventions
- Mathew Carey's fugitive Philadelphians
- Charles Brockden Brown's experiments in character
- Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and the irrepressible teague
- Edward W. Clay's "Life in Philadelphia"
- "The rage for profiles": silhouettes at Peale's Museum
- Philadelphia metempsychosis in Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee
- The peculiar position of our people
- William Whipper and debates in the black conventions
- Disfranchisement and appeal
- Joseph Willson's higher classes of colored society in Philadelphia
- "Doomed to destruction": the history of Pennsylvania hall
- The portraiture of the city of Philadelphia, and Henry James's American scene the mysteries of the city: George Lippard, Edgar Allan Poe
- The fiction of riot: George Lippard, John Beauchamp Jones
- The condition of the free people of color
- The struggle over "Philadelphia": Mary Howard Schoolcraft, Sara Josepha
- Hale, Martin Robison Delany, William Whipper and James McCune Smith
- Whipper Frank J. Webb's the garies and their friends "A rather curious protest"
- Still life in Georgia
- History and farce
- Parlor and riot
- Philadelphia vanitas
- The social experiment in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno.