Description
While boarding’s historical importance is indisputable, its role in the period’s literary production has been overlooked. In ,em>Boarding Out, David Faflik argues that the urban American boardinghouse exerted a decisive shaping power on the period’s writers and writings. Addressing the works of canonical authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, as well as neglected popular writers of the era such as Fanny Fern and George Lippard, Faflik demonstrates that boarding was at once psychically, artistically, and materially central in the making of our shared American culture.
Book Information
ISBN 9780810128415
Author David Faflik
Format Hardback
Page Count 392
Imprint Northwestern University Press
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Weight(grams) 456g