Boarding out [electronic resource] : inhabiting the American urban literary imagination, 1840-1860 / David Faflik.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xii, 374 p. :) illISBN:- 9780810166219
- 810.93564 23
- PS217.C57 F34 2012
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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