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: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780243935482

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

Author: Thomas Butler Gunn

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-04-23

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781354392539

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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.

Boarding Out
Boarding Out

Author: David Faflik

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2012-09-30

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 0810128381

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Driven by intensive industrialization and urbanization, the nineteenth century saw radical transformations in every facet of life in the United States. Immigrants and rural Americans poured into the nation’s cities, often ahead of or without their families. As city dwellers adapted to the new metropolis, boarding out became, for a few short decades, the most popular form of urban domesticity in the United States.While boarding’s historical importance is indisputable, its role in the period’s literary production has been overlooked. In Boarding Out, David Faflik argues that the urban American boardinghouse exerted a decisive shaping power on the period’s writers and writings. Addressing the works of canonical authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, as well as neglected popular writers of the era such as Fanny Fern and George Lippard, Faflik demonstrates that boarding was at once psychically, artistically, and materially central in the making of our shared American culture.

At Home in the City
At Home in the City

Author: Elizabeth Klimasmith

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781584654971

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A lucidly written analysis of urban literature and evolving residential architecture.

Turning the Pages of American Girlhood
Turning the Pages of American Girlhood

Author: Emily Hamilton-Honey

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2013-02-26

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0786463228

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Alternating chapters of historical background and literary analysis, this study argues that postbellum series books inspired young women by illustrating the ways in which girls could participate in social change, whether through church societies, benevolent organizations, educational institutions or political groups. By 1900, however, the socialization of series heroines had shifted to the consumer marketplace, where girls could develop personality and taste through their purchases. Both models had benefits: Religious faith and political activism gave young women moral power within their communities; consuming gave them opportunities to indulge individual desires and often to socialize in public without adult oversight. This work adds to the existing scholarship on girls' culture not only by examining the beginnings of series fiction for girls and the models of womanhood it presented but also by tracing the shifting social ideologies of girlhood throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Discipline and Punish
Discipline and Punish

Author: Michel Foucault

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-04-18

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0307819299

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A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

Slavery, Freedom and Culture Among Early American Workers
Slavery, Freedom and Culture Among Early American Workers

Author: Graham Russell Hodges

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780765601131

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This text consists of six chapters, all on the related subjects of black revolt, slavery, freemanship and labour. A short introduction organizes the collection and argues its importance for historians of early American labour, slavery, black studies and general history.

On the Town in New York
On the Town in New York

Author: Michael Batterberry

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780415920209

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.