Philadelphia stories : America's literature of race and freedom
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Philadelphia stories : America's literature of race and freedom
Oxford University Press, 2010
大学図書館所蔵 全7件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Bibliography: p. 343-369
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The site of William Penn's 'Holy Experiment' in religious toleration and representative government, Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential 'free' African American communities in the United States. The city was seen as a laboratory for social experimentation, one with international consequences. While historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have chronicled the distinctive social and political space of early national Philadelphia, no
sustained attempt has been made to understand how writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Brockden Brown, George Lippard, and others were creating a distinctive literary tradition, one shaped by the city itself. Analyzing a sequence of texts written in and about Philadelphia between the
Constitution and the Civil War, Otter shows how literary discourse intervened significantly in the period's intense debates about character, race, and nation. The book advances chronologically from the 1790s to the 1850s, and it is organized around the volatile issues the Philadelphia writing tradition responded to: contagion, riots, manners, and freedom. Throughout this exemplary work, Otter reveals how historical events produced a literature that wrestles with specific concerns: the city as
specimen, the diagnosis and proper treatment for urban disorder, the effects of position on interpretation, the trials of character, the substance of action, the nature of human difference and similarity, and the vehemence of prejudice. Philadelphia Stories is a work that reveals (1) how the writers
of Philadelphia defined the edge between freedom and slavery, altering the course of America's intellectual and national history, and (2) how the figure 'Philadelphia' stands for a place, a history, a tradition of the 'literary' that enriches and even clarifies the whole of American literary history.
目次
- INTRODUCTION: PHILADELPHIA STORIES, 1790-1860
- MATHEW CAREY, ABSALOM JONES, RICHARD ALLEN, AND THE COLOR OF FEVERLLLL..
- MINISTERS AND CRIMINALS: RICHARD ALLEN, JOHN JOYCE, AND PETER MATTHIAS
- BENJAMIN RUSH'S HEROIC INTERVENTIONS
- MATHEW CAREY'S FUGITIVE PHILADELPHIANS
- CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN'S EXPERIMENTS IN CHARACTER
- HUGH HENRY BRACKENRIDGE, AND THE IRREPRESSIBLE TEAGUE
- EDWARD W. CLAY'S "LIFE IN PHILADELPHIA
- "THE RAGE FOR PROFILES": SILHOUETTES AT PEALE'S MUSEUM
- PHILADELPHIA METEMPSYCHOSIS IN ROBERT MONTGOMERY BIRD'S SHEPPARD LEE
- THE PECULIAR POSITION OF OUR PEOPLE
- WILLIAM WHIPPER AND DEBATES IN THE BLACK CONVENTIONS.
- DISFRANCHISEMENT AND APPEAL
- JOSEPH WILLSON'S HIGHER CLASSES OF COLORED SOCIETY IN PHILADELPHIA
- "DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION": THE HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA HALL
- THE PORTRAITURE OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, AND HENRY JAMES'S AMERICAN SCENE THE MYSTERIES OF THE CITY: GEORGE LIPPARD, EDGAR ALLAN POE
- THE FICTION OF RIOT: GEORGE LIPPARD, JOHN BEAUCHAMP JONES
- THE CONDITION OF THE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR
- THE STRUGGLE OVER "PHILADELPHIA": MARY HOWARD SCHOOLCRAFT, SARA JOSEPHA
- HALE, MARTIN ROBISON DELANY, JAMES MCCUNE SMITH, AND WILLIAM
- WHIPPER FRANK J. WEBB'S THE GARIES AND THEIR FRIENDS
- "A RATHER CURIOUS PROTEST
- STILL LIFE IN GEORGIA
- HISTORY AND FARCE
- PARLOR AND RIOT
- PHILADELPHIA VANITAS
- THE SOCIAL EXPERIMENT IN HERMAN MELVILLE'S BENITO CERENO
- CODA: JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN'S PHILADELPHIA
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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