Urban rehearsals and novel plots in the early American city / Betsy Klimasmith.

ÚRban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City sheds new light on the literature of the early US by exploring how literature, theatre, architecture, and images worked together to allow readers to imagine themselves as urbanites even before cities developed. In the four decades following...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klimasmith, Elizabeth, 1969- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
American literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Littérature américaine > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
American literature.
1700-1799
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:viii, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: 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
  • Drama uncloseted in Boston: The Power of sympathy
  • Philadelphia's fevered readers: Charlotte Temple
  • Getting around the protocity: The coquette and The boarding school
  • Part Two. The liminal city: literary Philadelphia, 1800-1812
  • Entr'acte: framing urban spaces
  • Urban illuminations in Ormond
  • Obliged to wander: Dorval and Monima
  • Kelroy's shifting city
  • Finale: the future city, Franklin, and The female marine.