Boarding out : inhabiting the American urban literary imagination, 1840-1860 / David Faflik.
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TextPublication details: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2012.Description: xii, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780810128385 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0810128381 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780810128415 (hbk.)
- 0810128411 (hbk.)
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Book | Library Company of Philadelphia | Ob A4686.O | Available | 273312 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-357) and index.
Revised version of the author's dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.
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.
Gift of the author. LCP Fellow.