Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860

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Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. Adventures of Harry Franco, The (Briggs), 57, 122 advertisements, 13, 40, 79, 287n49 African Americans, 53–54, 264, 286n42; as boarders, 181, 298n41; free blacks, 139–40, 298n42; race riots in Philadelphia and, 224; runaway slaves, 178; in Walden, 174, 175, 178 agriculture, 167, 230 Alcott, Bronson, 309n10 Alcott, Louisa May, 260 alienation, 26 All in the Family (TV show), 262, 318n14 Alter, Robert, 9 America as I Found It (Duncan), 286n40 American Literature (journal), 81, 282n8 American Renaissance literature, 4, 186, 269n18; emergence of, 52; female feeling in, 227; object experiments of, 189 Anderson, Sherwood, 261, 316n12 antebellum period, 36, 73, 113, 275n11; authors as boarders, 51–57; boarding as paradigm shift, 81; margins of society, 57; popular literary genres of, 21; sexual mores of, 31–32; significance of boarding in, 41; theater in, 68; urbanization in, 84 Antoni, Robert, 260 apartments, 36, 47, 253, 273n4, 282n9; multistoried buildings, 84; Parisian-style apartment buildings, 48, 274n10 Apartment Stories (Marcus), 84 Apess, William, 314n2 architecture, 3, 15, 17, 29, 202, 282n9 art: boarding as art form, 82, 91, 183, 225; flanerie and, 153, 310n15; folk art, 33; life and, 164, 196, 226, 254, 260; modernist, 148 artisans, 39, 60, 192 Astor House hotel (New York), 53 At Home in the City (Klimasmith), 84, 282n9 Atlantic Monthly magazine, 26, 54, 71, 142, 289n15; Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table serialized in, 116–18, 123, 134, 168; on boardinghouse sexuality, 240; high culture and, 133, 291nn27–28; launch of, 132; readers of, 144; theatrical boarders in, 234, 310n18; Thoreau’s works reviewed in, 161–62 Augst, Thomas, 303n20 authors/authorship, 51–59, 90, 102. See also boarder-authors Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The (Holmes), 25–26, 28, 63, 147, 292n34; American community and, 118–21, 123–29; boardinghouse drama and, 71; cultural politics and, 133–39; disjointed structure of, 116–17, 119, 124, 140; as most celebrated 359 Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The (Holmes), continued boardinghouse book, 115–16, 288n1; Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses compared with, 65, 133; Quaker City compared with, 30; seriality (repetition) in, 142–43, 293n38; serialization in Atlantic Monthly, 116–18, 123, 134, 168, 288n2; time and space in, 140–45; Walden compared with, 149, 153, 164, 177 bachelors, 44, 64, 91, 245, 250, 297n36 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 140–41 “Ballad of Fisher’s Boarding-House, The” (Kipling), 261 Balzac, Honoré de, 16, 17, 210, 241, 242; on city as ocean, 3; death of Père Goriot and, 254 Barnum, P. T., 12, 45 bar-rooms, 282n14 “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Melville), 278n41 Baudelaire, Charles, 15, 19, 89 Baym, Nina, 77–78, 82, 273n4, 278n42, 281nn2–3, 308n3 Beazley, Samuel, 68, 69–70, 279n55 bedbugs, 11 beer halls, 68, 74 belles lettres, 21, 57, 71, 158 Bellew, Frank, 279n49 Bellis, Peter, 174, 296n33 Bender, Thomas, 126, 143, 178, 290n19; on modernist urban aesthetic, 203–4; on past and present, 200 Benedict, Fannie, 235 Benjamin, Walter, 19, 269n17 Bergmann, Hans, 296n29 Berlant, Lauren, 99–100, 113, 247 bildungsroman, 97, 100 Bird, Robert Montgomery, 210 Blackmar, Elizabeth, 40 Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne ), 31–32, 226–28, 250–52, 253, 269n18, 314n44; boarding represented in, 228–33; emotions in, 236–37, 250, 252; Fourierism and, 241–44; sexuality in, 237–39, 245–50; theatrical motifs in, 226, 246 Blumin, Stuart M., 121, 192, 195, 300n10, 301n17, 304n38 boarder-authors, 63–64, 74, 77, 95, 254; American community and, 120; death of, 314n2; middle-class boarding and, 60, 73; psychology of the city and, 83; public values and, 115; selfconcealment and, 73; time and space in storytelling, 153 boarder-narrators, 8, 63–64, 65, 66; in Autocrat of the BreakfastTable , 127; in The Lorgnette, 185; middle-class, 72 boarders, 29, 124, 127–28, 209, 211, 252; anonymity of, 62; at Brook Farm, 230, 309n9; class differences and, 184, 186; congressmen as, 45, 289n12; death of, 32; domesticity and, 81–82; emotional bonding between, 227; “family” of, 48; “gentlemen” boarders, 39; heterogeneity of, 45; high turnover rates of, 55; homelessness of, 151; “longterm ” or “steady,” 44, 275n19; married, 286n41; medical students , 131, 291n22; mobility of, 4; personal bonds among, 31–32; rates paid by, 44–45, 275n19; unattached males, 246, 312n36; in Walden, 174–75 boarding, 3–4, 6, 20, 21, 102; as civic institution, 27–28, 119; as communal compromise, 179; decline of, 253, 258–59, 282n9; definition/classification of, 38; discourse of, 78, 81, 88; 360 Index [3.21.231.245] Project...