Explores how early American Republic literary texts about urban life played an important role in constructing urban spaces and identities in the young United States, and how books allowed readers to access and practice being urban.
Explores how early American Republic literary texts about urban life played an important role in constructing urban spaces and identities in the young United States, and how books allowed readers to access and practice being urban.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Betsy Klimasmith is a Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Associate Editor of The New England Quarterly. She is the author of At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930 and edited the Broadview Edition of Kelroy. Her essays on cities, gender, race, and region in American literature have appeared in American Literature, Early American Literature, Western American Literature, and various essay collections. A former Fulbright Scholar, she teaches courses on American literature and directs the High-Impact Humanities Initiative at UMass Boston.
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Introduction: The City before the City Part One: The Protocity: Imagining the US City in the Eighteenth Century Prologue: Open House in New York: The Contrast 1: Drama Uncloseted in Boston: The Power of Sympathy 2: Philadelphia's Fevered Readers: Charlotte Temple 3: Getting Around the Protocity: The Coquette and The Boarding School Part Two: The Liminal City: Literary Philadelphia, 1800-1812 Entr'acte: Framing Urban Spaces 4: Urban Illuminations in Ormond 5: Obliged to Wander: Dorval and Monima 6: Kelroy's Shifting City Finale: The Future City, Franklin, and The Female Marine
Introduction: The City before the City Part One: The Protocity: Imagining the US City in the Eighteenth Century Prologue: Open House in New York: The Contrast 1: Drama Uncloseted in Boston: The Power of Sympathy 2: Philadelphia's Fevered Readers: Charlotte Temple 3: Getting Around the Protocity: The Coquette and The Boarding School Part Two: The Liminal City: Literary Philadelphia, 1800-1812 Entr'acte: Framing Urban Spaces 4: Urban Illuminations in Ormond 5: Obliged to Wander: Dorval and Monima 6: Kelroy's Shifting City Finale: The Future City, Franklin, and The Female Marine
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