Philadelphia stories : America's literature of race and freedom

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Autor principal: Otter, Samuel, 1956-
Format: Livre papier
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press cop. 2010.
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Autres localisations: Voir dans le Sudoc
Taula de continguts:
  • p.29
  • Mathew Carey, Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and the color of fever
  • p.40
  • Ministers and criminals : Richard Allen, John Joyce, and Peter Matthias
  • p.46
  • Benjamin Rush's heroic interventions
  • p.52
  • Mathew Carey's fugitive Philadelphians
  • p.58
  • Charles Brockden Brown's experiments in character
  • p.73
  • Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and the irrepressible teague
  • p.81
  • Edward W. Clay's "Life in Philadelphia"
  • p.89
  • "The rage for profiles" : silhouettes at Peale's Museum
  • p.95
  • Philadelphia metempsychosis in Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee
  • p.107
  • The peculiar position of our people : William Whipper and debates in the black conventions
  • p.118
  • Disfranchisement and appeal
  • p.123
  • Joseph Willson's higher classes of colored society in Philadelphia
  • p.138
  • "Doomed to destruction" : the history of Pennsylvania hall
  • p.157
  • The portraiture of the city of Philadelphia, and Henry James's American scene the mysteries of the city : George Lippard, Edgar Allan Poe
  • p.182
  • The fiction of riot : George Lippard, John Beauchamp Jones
  • p.
  • 202The condition of the free people of color
  • p.212
  • The struggle over "Philadelphia" : Mary Howard Schoolcraft, Sara Josepha Hale, Martin Robison Delany, William Whipper and James McCune Smith
  • p.224
  • Frank J. Webb's the garies and their friends : "A rather curious protest"
  • p.230
  • Still life in Georgia
  • p.237
  • History and farce
  • p.244
  • Parlor and riot
  • p.252
  • Philadelphia vanitas
  • p.266
  • The social experiment in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno