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Book SynopsisExplores 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.
Trade ReviewUrban Rehearsals is an invaluable resource for instructors making the case for the centrality of literary studies to this interdisciplinary field-a case we must make as educators as often as we do as scholars. * Laura V. Hankins, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
