Boarding out
Subtitle: inhabiting the American urban literary imagination, 1840-1860
By: David Faflik
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780810128385
Subjects: Boardinghouses; Boardinghouses in literature; City and town life in literature; History and criticism; American literature; History
Notes: Revised version of the author's dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the forms and functions of modern American metropolitan literature; title: Boardinghouse life, boardinghouse letters; title: Rhetorical boarding and the limits of domesticity; title: Boston's boardinghouse community; title: Concord board: democratic domestic as urban organic; title: Class mapping the literary metropolis: a residential reading of the Quaker city; title: Boarders, brothers, and lovers: the Blithedale Romance's theater of feeling.