Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the forms and functions of modern American metropolitan literature
  • Boardinghouse life, boardinghouse letters
  • Rhetorical boarding and the limits of domesticity
  • Boston's boardinghouse community
  • Concord board: democratic domestic as urban organic
  • Class mapping the literary metropolis: a residential reading of the Quaker city
  • Boarders, brothers, and lovers: the Blithedale Romance's theater of feeling.