Philadelphia Stories : America's Literature of Race and Freedom
ISBN: 9780199970964 | 0199970963
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 2/1/2013
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Philadelphia Stories analyzes the narratives about race, character, manners, violence, and freedom that unfold across a range of texts written in and about Philadelphia between 1790 and 1860. tested and a possible future for the United States after slavery would be played out. Otter argues that this setting produced a largely unacknowledged literary tradition of peculiar forms and intensities, in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race andnation.
InPhiladelphia Stories, Samuel Otter ... MORE
InPhiladelphia Stories, Samuel Otter ... MORE
| Introduction: Philadelphia Stories, 1790-1860 | |
| Fever | |
| Mathew Carey, Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and the Color of Fever | |
| 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 | |
| Manners | |
| Hug... MORE | |
| 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 | |
| Riot"Doomed to Destruction": The History of Pennsylvania Hall | |
| The Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia, and Henry James's American Scene The Mysteries of the City: George Lippard, Edgar Allan Poe | |
| The Fiction of Riot: George Lippard, John Beauchamp Jones | |
| The Condition of the Free People of Color | |
| 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 | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Samuel Otter is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Melville's Anatomies and the coeditor, with Geoffrey Sanborn, of Melville and Aesthetics.
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