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Paperback / softback. New. Driven by intensive industrialisation and urbanisation, the nineteenth century saw radical transformations in every facet of life in the United States. Immigrants and rural Americans poured into the nationâs 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.<br /><br /> While boardingâs historical importance is indisputable, its role in the periodâs literary production has been overlooked. In ,em>Boarding Out, David Faflik argues that the urban American boardinghouse exerted a decisive shaping power on the periodâs 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…
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Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860 Paperback - 2012
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- Title Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860
- Author David Faflik
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 388
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Northwestern University Press
- Date 2012-09
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780810128385 / 0810128381
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects American literature - 19th century - History, City and town life in literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012001461
- Dewey Decimal Code 810.935
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