UID:
almahu_9949711794102882
Format:
1 online resource (343 p.)
ISBN:
1-4214-0389-7
Series Statement:
New studies in American intellectual and cultural history
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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Prelude. James Kent, Legal Knowledge, and the Politics of PrintFour. 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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8018-8566-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
