Format:
1 Online-Ressource (343 p)
ISBN:
9780801885662
Series Statement:
New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
Content:
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
Content:
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
Content:
V -- W -- X -- Y -- Illustrations
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781421403892
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801885662
Additional Edition:
Print version Waterman, Bryan Republic of Intellect : The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,c2011
Language:
English
Keywords:
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