The American boardinghouse once provided basic domestic shelter and constituted a uniquely modern world view for the first true generation of U.S. city-dwellers. 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. Intimate in its confessional tone, comprehensive in its detail, disarmingly penetrating despite (or perhaps because of) its self-deprecating wit, Physiology is at once an essential introduction to a "lost" world of boarding, even as...
The American boardinghouse once provided basic domestic shelter and constituted a uniquely modern world view for the first true generation of U.S. cit...
Driven by intensive industrialization and urbanization, 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 "Boarding Out, " David Faflik argues that the urban...
Driven by intensive industrialization and urbanization, the nineteenth century saw radical transformations in every facet of life in the United Sta...
Driven by intensive industrialization and urbanization, 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 "Boarding Out, " David Faflik argues that the urban...
Driven by intensive industrialization and urbanization, the nineteenth century saw radical transformations in every facet of life in the United States...
