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Republic of Intellect The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature
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- Creator
- Bryan Waterman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (343 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780801885662, 9781421403892, 0801885663, 1421403897
- OCLC
- ocm70232269, ocn605557836, ocn941695810
- Open Access
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- 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 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
Subjects
- American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- Societies, etc. -- History -- 18th century.
- Fraternal organizations -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 18th century.
- Intellectuals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865.
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Biography.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
- Friendly Club (New York, N.Y.)