Boarding Out : Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Faflik, David, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Languages & Literatures.
English.
American Literature.
City and town life in literature.
Boardinghouses in literature.
Boardinghouses.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Pensions de famille > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Vie urbaine dans la litterature.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Boardinghouses > History > 19th century.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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