BOOKS - The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses
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The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses
Author: Thomas Butler Gunn
Year: November 30, 1856
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 8.2 MB
Language: English
Year: November 30, 1856
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 8.2 MB
Language: English
The American boardinghouse once provided basic domestic shelter and constituted a uniquely modern world view for the first true generation of U.S. city-dwellers. Thomas Butler Gunn's classic 1857 account of urban habitation, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses, explores the process by which boardinghouse life was translated into a lively urban vernacular. Intimate in its confessional tone, comprehensive in its detail, disarmingly penetrating despite (or perhaps because of) its self-deprecating wit, Physiology is at once an essential introduction to a and "lost and " world of boarding, even as it comprises an early, engaging, and sophisticated analysis of America's and "urban turn and " during the decades leading up to the Civil War. In his introduction, David Faflik considers what made Gunn's book a compelling read in the past and how today it can elucidate our understanding of the formation and evolution of urban American life and letters.
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