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Boarding out

Faflik, David, 1972-

Boarding out inhabiting the American urban literary imagination, 1840-1860 / [electronic resource] : David Faflik. - Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (xii, 374 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Revised version of the author's dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-357) and index.

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.

9780810166219


City and town life in literature.
Boardinghouses in literature.
Boardinghouses--History--19th century.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century


Electronic books.

PS217.C57 / F34 2012

810.93564