{"product_id":"boarding-out-inhabiting-the-american-urban-literary-imagination-1840-1860-paperback-softback-9780810128385","title":"Boarding Out; Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810128385","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBoarding Out\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eInhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Faflik (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810128385\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 October 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e392 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 14.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.456 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDriven 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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  While boarding’s historical importance is indisputable, its role in the period’s literary production has been overlooked. In ,em\u0026gt;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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eChapter 1: \"\"Boardinghouse Life, Boardinghouse Letters\"\" Chapter 2: \"\"Rhetorical Boarding and the Limits of Domesticity\"\" Chapter 3: \"\"Boston’\u003cbr\u003es Boardinghouse Community\"\" Chapter 4: \"\"Concord Board: Democratic Domestic as Urban Organic\"\" Chapter 5: \"\"Class Mapping the Literary Metropolis\"\" Chapter 6-: \"\"Boarders, Brothers, Lovers –\u003cbr\u003e The Blithedale Romance’\u003cbr\u003es Theater of Feeling\"\" The Epilogue\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555666063640,"sku":"9780810128385","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/boarding-out-inhabiting-the-american-urban-literary-imagination-1840-1860-paperback-softback-9780810128385","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}