Author: Mathew CAREY
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia: with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States ... Second edition
Philadelphia Stories
Author: Samuel Otter
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195395921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
A historic and symbolic city on the border between slavery and freedom, antebellum Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential "free" African American communities in the United States. The city was seen by residents and observers as the stage on which the possibilities of freedom would be tested and a post-slavery future would be played out for the nation. Philadelphia's charged setting produced a distinctive literary tradition that confronted issues of race, character, violence, and liberty. Verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation. The city's social experiments would have international consequences.This account of Philadelphia's literary history from 1790 to1860 brings together writers familiar (Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, John Edgar Wideman), lesser known (Hugh Henry Brackenridge, George Lippard, Frank J. Webb), and obscure (Mathew Carey, Robert Montgomery Bird, William Whipper, Joseph Willson). It draws on a host of diverse, often discounted expressive forms, from fever accounts and metempsychic fiction to caricatures and book covers.Samuel Otter's authoritative study considers the significance of geographical, social, and literary "place." It offers a model for thinking about the relationships between literature and history and among European-American and African-American writers. It challenges conventional narratives of American literary history. And finally, it establishes Philadelphia as fundamental to our understanding of not only the political but also the imaginative life of nineteenth-century America.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195395921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
A historic and symbolic city on the border between slavery and freedom, antebellum Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential "free" African American communities in the United States. The city was seen by residents and observers as the stage on which the possibilities of freedom would be tested and a post-slavery future would be played out for the nation. Philadelphia's charged setting produced a distinctive literary tradition that confronted issues of race, character, violence, and liberty. Verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation. The city's social experiments would have international consequences.This account of Philadelphia's literary history from 1790 to1860 brings together writers familiar (Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, John Edgar Wideman), lesser known (Hugh Henry Brackenridge, George Lippard, Frank J. Webb), and obscure (Mathew Carey, Robert Montgomery Bird, William Whipper, Joseph Willson). It draws on a host of diverse, often discounted expressive forms, from fever accounts and metempsychic fiction to caricatures and book covers.Samuel Otter's authoritative study considers the significance of geographical, social, and literary "place." It offers a model for thinking about the relationships between literature and history and among European-American and African-American writers. It challenges conventional narratives of American literary history. And finally, it establishes Philadelphia as fundamental to our understanding of not only the political but also the imaginative life of nineteenth-century America.
A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia
Author: Mathew Carey
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379422655
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library W029402 Also issued as the fifth title in: Select pamphlets: viz. 1. Lessons to a young prince .. Philadelphia: Published by Mathew Carey, 1796 (Evans 31172). Two states noted. In one, the last word on p. 61 is "un-." In the other, the last word is "'till." Pa Philadelphia: Printed by the author, November 23, 1793. viii, [1],10-103, [9]p.; 8°
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379422655
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library W029402 Also issued as the fifth title in: Select pamphlets: viz. 1. Lessons to a young prince .. Philadelphia: Published by Mathew Carey, 1796 (Evans 31172). Two states noted. In one, the last word on p. 61 is "un-." In the other, the last word is "'till." Pa Philadelphia: Printed by the author, November 23, 1793. viii, [1],10-103, [9]p.; 8°
American Bibliography: 1793-1794
Author: Charles Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Dictionary of Books relating to America
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846047430
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846047430
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Catalogue of printed books in the library of the New York Historical Society
Author: New-York Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the New-York Historical Society
Author: New-York Historical Society. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description