Philadelphia stories
Subtitle: America's literature of race and freedom
By: Samuel Otter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780195395921
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mathew Carey, Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and the color of fever; title: Ministers and criminals: Richard Allen, John Joyce, and Peter Matthias; title: Benjamin Rush's heroic interventions; title: Mathew Carey's fugitive Philadelphians; title: Charles Brockden Brown's experiments in character; title: Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and the irrepressible teague; title: Edward W. Clay's "Life in Philadelphia"; title: "The rage for profiles": silhouettes at Peale's Museum; title: Philadelphia metempsychosis in Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee; title: The peculiar position of our people; title: William Whipper and debates in the black conventions; title: Disfranchisement and appeal; title: Joseph Willson's higher classes of colored society in Philadelphia; title: "Doomed to destruction": the history of Pennsylvania hall; title: The portraiture of the city of Philadelphia, and Henry James's American scene the mysteries of the city: George Lippard, Edgar Allan Poe; title: The fiction of riot: George Lippard, John Beauchamp Jones; title: The condition of the free people of color; title: The struggle over "Philadelphia": Mary Howard Schoolcraft, Sara Josepha; title: Hale, Martin Robison Delany, William Whipper and James McCune Smith; title: Whipper Frank J. Webb's the garies and their friends "A rather curious protest"; title: Still life in Georgia; title: History and farce; title: Parlor and riot; title: Philadelphia vanitas; title: The social experiment in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno.