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Republic of Intellect The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature / Bryan Waterman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waterman, Bryan, 1970-
- Series:
- New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
- New studies in American intellectual and cultural history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Friendly Club (New York, N.Y.).
- American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Societies, etc--History--18th century.
- Fraternal organizations--New York (State)--New York--History--18th century.
- Fraternal organizations.
- Intellectuals--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Intellectuals.
- United States--Intellectual life--1783-1865.
- United States.
- New York (N.Y.)--History--1775-1865--Biography.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (343 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Voluntary association and print culture helped these young New Yorkers, Waterman concludes, to produce a broader and more diverse post-revolutionary public sphere than scholars have yet recognized.
- Contents:
- 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 KNOWLEDGE
- Prelude. 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; Illustrations
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0389-7
- OCLC:
- 941695810
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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