Title Boarding out : inhabiting the American urban literary imagination, 1840-1860 / David Faflik

Published Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 374 pages) : illustrations Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature collection 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 Notes Revision of the author's thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-357) and index Notes English Print version record Subject City and town life in literature. Boardinghouses in literature. Boardinghouses -- History -- 19th century American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. American literature Boardinghouses Boardinghouses in literature City and town life in literature American Literature. English. Languages & Literatures. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012001461 ISBN 9780810166219 0810166216

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