Title Republic of Intellect : the Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature

Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (343 pages) Series New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History New studies in American intellectual and cultural history. Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction. "There exists in this city, a small association of men"; PART ONE. ASSOCIATIONS; Prelude. Pictures at an Exhibition; One. "The Town is the only place for rational beings": Sociability, Science, and the Literature of Intimate Inquiry; Two. Dangerous Associations: The Illuminati Conspiracy Scare as a Crisis of Public Intellectual Authority; Three. Unrestrained Conversation and the "Understanding of Woman": Radicalism, Feminism, and the Challenge of Polite Society; PART TWO. INDUSTRIES OF KNOWLEDGE Prelude. James Kent, Legal Knowledge, and the Politics of PrintFour. The Public Is in the House: William Dunlap's Park Theatre and the Making of American Audiences; Five. "Here was fresh matter for discourse": Yellow Fever, the Medical Repository, and Arthur Mervyn; Coda. The End of the American Enlightenment: Samuel Miller's A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century; Appendix. Friendly Club Membership and Nineteenth-Century New York City Historiography; Abbreviations; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Illustrations Notes Print version record Subject Friendly Club (New York, N.Y.) SUBJECT Friendly Club (New York, N.Y.) fast Subject Intellectuals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography Fraternal organizations -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 18th century American literature -- Societies, etc. -- History -- 18th century American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism American literature American literature -- Societies, etc. Fraternal organizations Intellectual life Intellectuals SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Biography United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140365 Subject New York (State) -- New York United States Genre/Form Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781421403892 1421403897

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