Urban revelations : images of ruin in the American city, 1790-1860 /
McNutt, Donald J.,1968-
New York ; London : Routledge,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index.
Introduction --  Framing the Indian : children of the forest on the urban scene -- "The idea of this room" : houses and the image of fiction in Arthur Mervyn -- "Haunts about town" : Poe's tales and Eastern State Penitentiary -- The city behind the masquerade of fiction : Melville's The confidence-man.
American literature
American literature
Ruins in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
American literature