02808cam a2200373 a 4500 15825533 OSt 20150408113958.0 111214s2010 nyua b 001 0 eng 2009029086 GBB003979 bnb 015461799 Uk 9780195395921 (cloth : alk. paper) 0195395921 (cloth : alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocn427704498 DLC DLC YDX UKM YDXCP BWX CDX VVC NLGGC DLC n-us-pa PS255.P5 O88 2010 820.935874 O S P 22 Otter, Samuel, 1956- 8403 Philadelphia stories : America's literature of race and freedom / Samuel Otter. New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. xii, 396 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Mathew Carey, Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and the color of fever -- Ministers and criminals: Richard Allen, John Joyce, and Peter Matthias -- Benjamin Rush's heroic interventions -- Mathew Carey's fugitive Philadelphians -- Charles Brockden Brown's experiments in character -- Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and the irrepressible teague -- Edward W. Clay's "Life in Philadelphia" -- "The rage for profiles": silhouettes at Peale's Museum -- Philadelphia metempsychosis in Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee -- The peculiar position of our people -- William Whipper and debates in the black conventions -- Disfranchisement and appeal -- Joseph Willson's higher classes of colored society in Philadelphia -- "Doomed to destruction": the history of Pennsylvania hall -- The portraiture of the city of Philadelphia, and Henry James's American scene the mysteries of the city: George Lippard, Edgar Allan Poe -- The fiction of riot: George Lippard, John Beauchamp Jones -- The condition of the free people of color -- The struggle over "Philadelphia": Mary Howard Schoolcraft, Sara Josepha -- Hale, Martin Robison Delany, William Whipper and James McCune Smith -- Whipper Frank J. Webb's the garies and their friends "A rather curious protest" -- Still life in Georgia -- History and farce -- Parlor and riot -- Philadelphia vanitas -- The social experiment in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno. American literature Pennsylvania Philadelphia History and criticism. 8404 Literature and history. 7817 American literature 19th century History and criticism. 7967 Philadelphia (Pa.) History 19th century. 8405 Philadelphia (Pa.) In literature. 8406 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc DVD 19752 254252 0 2013-03-10 0 0 820.935874 O S P 2011-12-14 IC 00100522 IC 2013-03-10 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0 0 2013-03-10 0 0 820.935874 O S P 2011-12-14 IC 00100521 IC 2013-03-10 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0