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Waterman Bryan <1970-> |
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Titolo |
Republic of Intellect : The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature / / Bryan Waterman |
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Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2007 |
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©2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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Collana |
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New studies in American intellectual and cultural history |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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