Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses.

Title:

Author:

Gunn, Thomas.

ISBN:

9780813546216

Personal Author:

Gunn, Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Contents:

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses -- Explanatory Notes -- Further Reading -- About the Editor.

Abstract:

Thomas Butler Gunn's classic 1857 account of urban habitation, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses, explores the process by which boardinghouse life was translated into a lively urban vernacular.Physiology is at once an essential introduction to a "lost" world of boarding, even as it comprises an early, engaging, and sophisticated analysis of America's "urban turn" during the decades leading up to the Civil War.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Boardinghouses -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century.

Lodging-houses -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century.

New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Added Author:

Faflik, David.

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