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Boarding Out
David Faflik
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Description for Boarding Out
Paperback. Revised version of the author's dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Driven by intensive industrialisation and urbanisation, the nineteenth century saw radical transformations in every facet of life in the United States. Immigrants and rural Americans poured into the nation’s cities, often ahead of or without their families. As city dwellers adapted to the new metropolis, boarding out became, for a few short decades, the most popular form of urban domesticity in the United States.
While boarding’s historical importance is indisputable, its role in the period’s literary production has been overlooked. In ,em>Boarding Out, David Faflik argues that the urban American boardinghouse exerted a decisive shaping power on ... Read more
Driven by intensive industrialisation and urbanisation, the nineteenth century saw radical transformations in every facet of life in the United States. Immigrants and rural Americans poured into the nation’s cities, often ahead of or without their families. As city dwellers adapted to the new metropolis, boarding out became, for a few short decades, the most popular form of urban domesticity in the United States.
While boarding’s historical importance is indisputable, its role in the period’s literary production has been overlooked. In ,em>Boarding Out, David Faflik argues that the urban American boardinghouse exerted a decisive shaping power on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810128385
SKU
V9780810128385
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About David Faflik
David Faflik is an assistant professor of English at the University of Rhode Island.
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