03480oam 22006734a 450 991046414790332120210915031141.01-4214-0389-7(CKB)3240000000068947(EBL)4398445(OCoLC)941695810(SSID)ssj0000607643(PQKBManifestationID)11384886(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607643(PQKBWorkID)10585088(PQKB)11577148(MiAaPQ)EBC4398445(OCoLC)605557836(MdBmJHUP)muse2853(Au-PeEL)EBL4398445(CaPaEBR)ebr11161162(EXLCZ)99324000000006894720060616d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRepublic of IntellectThe Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature /Bryan WatermanBaltimore :Johns Hopkins University Press,2007.©2007.1 online resource (343 p.)New studies in American intellectual and cultural historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8018-8566-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 KNOWLEDGEPrelude. 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; IllustrationsNew studies in American intellectual and cultural history.American literature1783-1850History and criticismAmerican literatureSocieties, etcHistory18th centuryFraternal organizationsNew York (State)New YorkHistory18th centuryIntellectualsNew York (State)New YorkBiographyUnited StatesIntellectual life1783-1865New York (N.Y.)History1775-1865BiographyNew York (N.Y.)Intellectual life18th centuryElectronic books. American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureSocieties, etc.HistoryFraternal organizationsHistoryIntellectuals974.7/03Waterman Bryan1970-902083MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910464147903321Republic of intellect2016591UNINA