A historic and symbolic city on the border between slavery and freedom, Philadelphia was seen as the stage on which racial character would be tested and a possible post-slavery future played out. Philadelphia Stories argues that thiscosmopolitan setting produced a novel, and enduring, literary tradition in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation. With bold and commanding analyses, Otter delivers a sophisticated argumentthat establishes Philadelphia as a cornerstone of American literary history. INDICE: INTRODUCTION: Philadelphia Stories, 1790-1860; 1.: FEVER; Mathew Carey, Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and the Color of FeverLLLL.. ; 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; 2.: MANNERS; Hugh Henry Brackenridge, andthe 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; 3.: RIOT; 'Doomed to Destruction': The History of Pennsylvania Hall; The Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia, and Henry James's American Scene The Mysteries ofthe City: George Lippard, Edgar Allan Poe; The Fiction of Riot: George Lippard, John Beauchamp Jones; The Condition of the Free People of Color; 4.: FREEDOM; The Struggle over 'Philadelphia': Mary Howard Schoolcraft, Sara Josepha; Hale, Martin Robison Delany, James McCune Smith, and William; Whipper 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; Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-539592-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 408
- Fecha Publicación: 20/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés