Republic of intellect : the Friendly Club of New York City and the making of American literature
In the 1790s, a single conversational circle—the Friendly Club—united New York City's most ambitious young writers, and in Republic of Intellect, Bryan Waterman uses an innovative blend of literary criticism and historical narrative to re-create the club's intellectual culture. The story o...
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| Médium: | E-kniha Kniha |
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Baltimore, Md
Johns Hopkins University Press
2007
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| Edice: | New studies in American intellectual and cultural history |
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| ISBN: | 9780801885662, 0801885663, 9781421428406, 1421428407, 1421403897, 9781421403892 |
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- Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. “There exists in this city, a small association of men” PART ONE. ASSOCIATIONS Prelude. Pictures at an Exhibition One. “The Town is the only place for rational beings”: Sociability, Science, and the Literature of Intimate Inquiry Two. Dangerous Associations: The Illuminati Conspiracy Scare as a Crisis of Public Intellectual Authority Three. Unrestrained Conversation and the “Understanding of Woman”: Radicalism, Feminism, and the Challenge of Polite Society PART TWO. INDUSTRIES OF KNOWLEDGE Prelude. James Kent, Legal Knowledge, and the Politics of Print Four. The Public Is in the House: William Dunlap’s Park Theatre and the Making of American Audiences Five. “Here was fresh matter for discourse”: Yellow Fever, the Medical Repository, and Arthur Mervyn Coda. The End of the American Enlightenment: Samuel Miller’s A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century Appendix. Friendly Club Membership and Nineteenth-Century New York City Historiography Abbreviations Notes Index Illustrations Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication
- Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. "There exists in this city, a small association of men" -- PART ONE. ASSOCIATIONS -- Prelude. Pictures at an Exhibition -- One. "The Town is the only place for rational beings": Sociability, Science, and the Literature of Intimate Inquiry -- Two. Dangerous Associations: The Illuminati Conspiracy Scare as a Crisis of Public Intellectual Authority -- Three. Unrestrained Conversation and the "Understanding of Woman": Radicalism, Feminism, and the Challenge of Polite Society -- PART TWO. INDUSTRIES OF KNOWLEDGE -- Prelude. James Kent, Legal Knowledge, and the Politics of Print -- Four. The Public Is in the House: William Dunlap's Park Theatre and the Making of American Audiences -- Five. "Here was fresh matter for discourse": Yellow Fever, the Medical Repository, and Arthur Mervyn -- Coda. The End of the American Enlightenment: Samuel Miller's A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century -- Appendix. Friendly Club Membership and Nineteenth-Century New York City Historiography -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Illustrations