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The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses
Rutgers University Press, 2008 Paper: 978-0-8135-4440-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8135-8168-2 | Cloth: 978-0-8135-4439-7 Library of Congress Classification HD7288.U4G86 2009 Dewey Decimal Classification 647.940974710903
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The American boardinghouse once provided basic domestic shelter and constituted a uniquely modern world view for the first true generation of U.S. city-dwellers. Thomas Butler Gunn's classic 1857 account of urban habitation, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses, explores the process by which boardinghouse life was translated into a lively urban vernacular. Intimate in its confessional tone, comprehensive in its detail, disarmingly penetrating despite (or perhaps because of) its self-deprecating wit, Physiology is at once an essential introduction to a "lost" world of boarding, even as it comprises an early, engaging, and sophisticated analysis of America's "urban turn" during the decades leading up to the Civil War. In his introduction, David Faflik considers what made Gunn's book a compelling read in the past and how today it can elucidate our understanding of the formation and evolution of urban American life and letters. See other books on: Boardinghouses | Faflik, David | Lodging-houses | New York (N.Y.) | Physiology See other titles from Rutgers University Press |
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The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
Rutgers University Press, 2008
Paper: 978-0-8135-4440-3
eISBN: 978-0-8135-8168-2
Cloth: 978-0-8135-4439-7
Paper: 978-0-8135-4440-3
eISBN: 978-0-8135-8168-2
Cloth: 978-0-8135-4439-7
The American boardinghouse once provided basic domestic shelter and constituted a uniquely modern world view for the first true generation of U.S. city-dwellers. Thomas Butler Gunn's classic 1857 account of urban habitation, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses, explores the process by which boardinghouse life was translated into a lively urban vernacular. Intimate in its confessional tone, comprehensive in its detail, disarmingly penetrating despite (or perhaps because of) its self-deprecating wit, Physiology is at once an essential introduction to a "lost" world of boarding, even as it comprises an early, engaging, and sophisticated analysis of America's "urban turn" during the decades leading up to the Civil War.
In his introduction, David Faflik considers what made Gunn's book a compelling read in the past and how today it can elucidate our understanding of the formation and evolution of urban American life and letters.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
