Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City

Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City sheds new light on the literature of...
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Author: Betsy Klimasmith
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Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City by Klimasmith, Betsy

Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City

$322.78

Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City

$322.78
Author: Betsy Klimasmith
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City sheds new light on the literature of the early US by exploring how literature, theatre, architecture, and images worked together to allow readers to imagine themselves as urbanites even before cities developed. In the four decades
following the Revolutionary War, the new nation was a loose network of nascent cities connected by print. Before a national culture could develop, local city cultures took shape; literary texts played key roles in helping new Americans become city people.

Drawing on extensive archival research, Urban Rehearsals argues that literature, particularly novels and plays, allowed Bostonians to navigate the transition from colonial town to post-revolution city, enabled Philadelphians to grieve their experiences of the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic and rebuild
in the epidemic's aftermath, and showed New Yorkers how the domestic practices that reinforced their urbanity could be opened to the broader public. Throughout, attention to underrepresented voices and texts calls attention to the possibilities for women, immigrants, and Black Americans in
developing urban spaces, while showing how those possibilities would be foreclosed as the nation developed.

Balancing attention to canonical texts of the early Republic, including The Power of Sympathy, Charlotte Temple, and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, with novels whose depiction of early cities deserves greater attention, such as Ormond, The Boarding-School, Monima, and Kelroy, this volume shows
how US cities developed on the pages and stages of the early Republic, building urban imaginations that would construct the nation's early cities.


Author: Betsy Klimasmith
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/04/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.53w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780192846211

About the Author

Betsy Klimasmith, Professor of English, University of Massachusetts

Betsy Klimasmith is a Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Associate Editor of The New England Quarterly. She is the author of At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930 and edited the Broadview Edition of Kelroy. Her essays
on cities, gender, race, and region in American literature have appeared in American Literature, Early American Literature, Western American Literature, and various essay collections. A former Fulbright Scholar, she teaches courses on American literature and directs the High-Impact Humanities
Initiative at UMass Boston.

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