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Boarding out [electronic resource] : inhabiting the American urban literary imagination, 1840-1860 / David Faflik.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xii, 374 p. :) illISBN:
  • 9780810166219
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 810.93564 23
LOC classification:
  • PS217.C57 F34 2012
Online resources:
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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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.

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