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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524882403321

Autore

Waterman Bryan <1970->

Titolo

Republic of Intellect : The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature / / Bryan Waterman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4214-0389-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Collana

New studies in American intellectual and cultural history

Disciplina

974.7/03

Soggetti

American literature - 1783-1850 - History and criticism

American literature - Societies, etc - History - 18th century

Fraternal organizations - New York (State) - New York - History - 18th century

Intellectuals - New York (State) - New York

Electronic books.

United States Intellectual life 1783-1865

New York (N.Y.) History 1775-1865 Biography

New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. "There exists in this city, a small association of men"; PART ONE. ASSOCIATIONS; Prelude. Pictures at an Exhibition; One. "The Town is the only place for rational beings": Sociability, Science, and the Literature of Intimate Inquiry; Two. Dangerous Associations: The Illuminati Conspiracy Scare as a Crisis of Public Intellectual Authority; Three. Unrestrained Conversation and the "Understanding of Woman": Radicalism, Feminism, and the Challenge of Polite Society; PART TWO. INDUSTRIES OF KNOWLEDGE

Prelude. James Kent, Legal Knowledge, and the Politics of PrintFour. The Public Is in the House: William Dunlap's Park Theatre and the Making of American Audiences; Five. "Here was fresh matter for discourse": Yellow Fever, the Medical Repository, and Arthur Mervyn; Coda. The End of the American Enlightenment: Samuel Miller's A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century; Appendix. Friendly Club Membership and



Nineteenth-Century New York City Historiography; Abbreviations; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Illustrations