The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses
The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses

Author: Thomas Gunn

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2008-12-10

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0813546214

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The American boardinghouse once provided basic domestic shelter and constituted a uniquely modern world view for the first true generation of U.S. city-dwellers. Thomas Butler Gunn's classic 1857 account of urban habitation, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses, explores the process by which boardinghouse life was translated into a lively urban vernacular. Intimate in its confessional tone, comprehensive in its detail, disarmingly penetrating despite (or perhaps because of) its self-deprecating wit, Physiology is at once an essential introduction to a "lost" world of boarding, even as it comprises an early, engaging, and sophisticated analysis of America's "urban turn" during the decades leading up to the Civil War. In his introduction, David Faflik considers what made Gunn's book a compelling read in the past and how today it can elucidate our understanding of the formation and evolution of urban American life and letters.

The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses (Classic Reprint)
The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses (Classic Reprint)

Author: Thomas Butler Gunn

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-15

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780266369936

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Excerpt from The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses He hopes his readers will approve the performance. He thinks some of them may recognize more or less par ticulars as the counterpart of those familiar to their own personal observation. Perhaps it were indicative of a too sanguine disposition to express expectations of securing the approbation of the proprietors and proprietresses of the Establishments treated of. He trusts, however, they will read his Physiology. They may derive profit from it - if not pleasure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses
The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9781230453002

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...n't endure tobacco, liked Miss Warner's novels and Tupper's poems, attended a Bibleclass on Sunday afternoons, and was publicly snubbed and depreciated by his mother--it being, indeed, that excellent matron's custom to treat him as though he were a natural fool upon all occasions. She'd tell him, when in conversation with others, to hold his tongue, aud not to expose himself. She would narrate particulars of his entertaining hopeless passions for a scries of young ladies, and generally indulge in confidences caleulated to make a listener get hot and uncomfortable--when in presence of their hero. Her second-born was in California. No. 3 camo home but seldom, being employed as a governess in an up-town family. No. 4 was a very pretty girl of fifteen, with soft, bright eyes, and curling hair, and of a most lively but variable temperament. Her mother had a trick of discovering entirely imaginary attachments on the part of young-gentlemen for this daughter, and warmly abetting or indignantly repelling them. No. 6 (the youngest of the family) was a singular youth, whe nourished wild ideas about constructing an omnibus, using cats or goats as a" propulsive power, and making a large fortune on Broadway by devoting his vehicle to the accommodation of fashionable youth. With which view he haunted lumber-yards, soliciting contributory bits of wood from the proprietors, and, also, set traps of clothes' lines and balls of twine in the back-yard, to secure the necessary quadrupeds. When the family met together, a great deal of kissing always took place. They were very affectionate. You could n't spend an evening in their company witheut witnessing at least two or three osculatory performances. Mrs. would set them at it on the smallest provocation...

The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses - Primary Source Edition
The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses - Primary Source Edition

Author: Thomas Butler Gunn

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9781293311448

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America
The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America

Author: Wendy Gamber

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2007-04-16

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1421402599

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In nineteenth-century America, the bourgeois home epitomized family, morality, and virtue. But this era also witnessed massive urban growth and the acceptance of the market as the overarching model for economic relations. A rapidly changing environment bred the antithesis of "home": the urban boardinghouse. In this groundbreaking study, Wendy Gamber explores the experiences of the numerous people—old and young, married and single, rich and poor—who made boardinghouses their homes. Gamber contends that the very existence of the boardinghouse helped create the domestic ideal of the single family home. Where the home was private, the boardinghouse theoretically was public. If homes nurtured virtue, boardinghouses supposedly bred vice. Focusing on the larger cultural meanings and the commonplace realities of women’s work, she examines how the houses were run, the landladies who operated them, and the day-to-day considerations of food, cleanliness, and petty crime. From ravenous bedbugs to penny-pinching landladies, from disreputable housemates to "boarder's beef," Gamber illuminates the annoyances—and the satisfactions—of nineteenth-century boarding life.

Selections from Eliza Leslie
Selections from Eliza Leslie

Author: Eliza Leslie

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0803238096

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Best known for her culinary and domestic guides and the award-winning short story “Mrs. Washington Potts,” Eliza Leslie deserves a much more prominent place in contemporary literary discussions of the nineteenth century. Her writing, known for its overtly moralistic and didactic tones—though often presented with wit and humor—also provides contemporary readers with a nuanced perspective for understanding the diversity among American women in Leslie’s time. Leslie’s writing serves as a commentary on gender ideals and consumerism; presents complicated constructions of racial, national, and class-based identities; and critiques literary genres such as the Gothic romance and the love letter. These criticisms are exposed through the juxtaposition of her fiction and nonfiction instructive texts, which range from lessons on literary conduct to needlework; from recipes for American and French culinary dishes to travel sketches; from songs to educational games. Demonstrating the complexity of choices available to women at the time, this volume enables readers to see how Leslie’s rhetoric and audience awareness facilitated her ability to appeal to a broad swath of the nineteenth-century reading public.

City of Workers, City of Struggle
City of Workers, City of Struggle

Author: Joshua B. Freeman

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2019-04-30

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 023154958X

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From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Starting with artisans and slaves in colonial New York and ranging all the way to twenty-first-century gig-economy workers, this book tells the story of New York’s labor history anew. City of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, daily life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have developed formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but also to pursue a vision of what the city should be like and whom it should be for. The book goes beyond the largely white, male wage workers in mainstream labor organizations who have dominated the history of labor movements to look at enslaved people, indentured servants, domestic workers, sex workers, day laborers, and others who have had to fight not only their masters and employers but also labor groups that often excluded them. Through their stories—how they fought for inclusion or developed their own ways to advance—it recenters labor history for contemporary struggles. City of Workers, City of Struggle offers the definitive account of the four-hundred-year history of efforts by New York workers to improve their lives and their communities. In association with the exhibition City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York at the Museum of the City of New York