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Philadelphia Stories : America's Literature of Race and Freedom

ISBN: 9780195395921 | 0195395921
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 4/21/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
The site of William Penn's 'Holy Experiment' in religious toleration and representative government, Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential 'free' African American communities in the United States. The city was seen as a laboratory for social experimentation, one with international consequences. While historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have chronicled the distinctive social and political space of early national Philadelphia, no sustained attempt has been made to understand how writers such as Edgar Allan Po... MORE
Introduction: Philadelphia Stories, 1790-1860p. 3
Feverp. 25
The Color of Feverp. 29
Ministers and Criminalsp. 40
Heroic Interventionsp. 46
Fugitive Philadelphiansp. 52
Experiments in Characterp. 58
Mannersp. 71
The Irrepressible Teaguep. 73
"Life in Philadelphia"p. 81
"The ... MOREp. 89
Philadelphia Metempsychosis in Robert Montgomery Bird'sp. 95
"The Peculiar Position of Our People": William Whipper and Debates in the Black Conventionsp. 107
Disfranchisement and Appealp. 118
Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphiap. 123
Riotp. 131
"Doomed to Destruction": The History of Pennsylvania Hallp. 138
The Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia, and Henry James's American Scenep. 157
The Mysteries of the Cityp. 165
The Fiction of Riotp. 182
The Condition of the Free People of Colorp. 202
Freedomp. 211
The Struggle over "Philadelphia"p. 212
The Garies and. Their Friends: "A Rather Curious Protest"p. 224
Still Life in Georgiap. 230
History and Farcep. 237
Parlor and Riotp. 244
Philadelphia Vanitasp. 252
The Social Experiment in Herman Melville's Benito Cerenop. 266
Coda: John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphiap. 279
Notesp. 289
Bibliographyp. 343
Indexp. 371
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Samuel Otter is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Melville's Anatomies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999)

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