Philadelphia stories : America's literature of race and freedom / Samuel Otter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Otter, Samuel, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History and criticism.

American literature.

Literature and history.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Philadelphia (Pa.)--In literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Summary:

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 laborato

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: Philadelphia Stories, 1790-1860

ONE: Fever

Mathew Carey, Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and the Color of Fever

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

TWO: Manners

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

THREE: Riot

"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

FOUR: Freedom

The Struggle over "Philadelphia": Mary Howard Schoolcraft, Sarah Josepha Hale, Martin Robison Delany, William Whipper, and James McCune Smith

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

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612500978

1-282-50097-X

0-19-974193-X

OCLC:

609859856