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Argues that the urban American boarding house 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.

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Chapter 1: ""Boardinghouse Life, Boardinghouse Letters"" Chapter 2: ""Rhetorical Boarding and the Limits of Domesticity"" Chapter 3: ""Boston’s Boardinghouse Community"" Chapter 4: ""Concord Board: Democratic Domestic as Urban Organic"" Chapter 5: ""Class Mapping the Literary Metropolis"" Chapter 6-: ""Boarders, Brothers, Lovers – The Blithedale Romance’s Theater of Feeling"" The Epilogue

Boarding Out Inhabiting the American Urban

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: 9/30/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810128415, 978-0810128415
      ISBN10: 0810128411

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      Book Synopsis
      Argues that the urban American boarding house 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.

      Table of Contents
      Chapter 1: ""Boardinghouse Life, Boardinghouse Letters"" Chapter 2: ""Rhetorical Boarding and the Limits of Domesticity"" Chapter 3: ""Boston’s Boardinghouse Community"" Chapter 4: ""Concord Board: Democratic Domestic as Urban Organic"" Chapter 5: ""Class Mapping the Literary Metropolis"" Chapter 6-: ""Boarders, Brothers, Lovers – The Blithedale Romance’s Theater of Feeling"" The Epilogue

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