TY - BOOK AU - Faflik,David ED - Project Muse. TI - Boarding out: inhabiting the American urban literary imagination, 1840-1860 SN - 9780810166219 AV - PS217.C57 F34 2012 U1 - 810.93564 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Evanston, Ill. PB - Northwestern University Press KW - City and town life in literature KW - Boardinghouses in literature KW - Boardinghouses KW - History KW - 19th century KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780810166219/ ER -