The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses

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selected works of thomas butler gunn Mose Among the Britishers; or, The B’hoy in London. Philadelphia: A. Hart, 1850 (held at the University of Chicago, the New York Public Library, Harvard Houghton, and Yale). Scrapbook of Caricatures. New York? 1856 (held at the New York Public Library). Parton, James, and Thomas Butler Gunn, eds. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language , from Chaucer to Saxe. NewYork: Mason Brothers,1856 (held at the NewYork Public Library). The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses. New York: Mason Brothers, 1857. “Bonner and the New-York Ledger.” The Scalpel 40 (April 1859): 54–62 (held at the American Antiquarian Society). Selected Southern Civil War correspondence for the New York Tribune, 1861–1863. Manuscript Diaries,21 vols.,July 17,1849–April 7,1863 (held at the Missouri Historical Society , St. Louis, Missouri). Selected London correspondence for the New York Tribune, 1863–. primary sources Benedict, Fannie.“Boarding-House Experience in NewYork.”Packard’s Monthly Magazine 1, no. 1 (1869): 100–103. “Board for a Lady.”Harper’s Monthly 13, no. 75 (August 1856): 358–359. Briggs, Charles Frederick. The Adventures of Harry Franco: A Tale of the Great Panic. 2 vols. New York: F. Saunders, 1839. Bristed, Charles Astor.“A New Theory of Bohemians.”Knickerbocker (March 1861): 311–317. Cummins, Maria. The Lamplighter [1854]. Ed. Nina Baym. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995. “Editorial: Home in a Boarding-House.”Lowell Offering 3 (1842): 69–70. “New American Writers.”Holden’s Dollar Magazine (July 1848): 421–424. Taylor, Bayard. John Godfrey’s Fortunes; Related By Himself: A Story of American Life. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1865. Whitman, Walt. Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate; A Tale of the Times [1842]. Ed. Jean Downey. New Haven: Yale College and University Press, 1967. 199 F U R T H E R R E A D I N G further reading 200 ———.“The Two Vaults.”In The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, vol. 2, ed. Emory Holloway. New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1921, 92–93. Willis, N. P.“Cheap Boarding and True Love.” New Mirror (October 21, 1843): 33–38. secondary sources Bergmann, Hans. God in the Street: New York Writing from the Penny Press to Melville. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995. Blackmar, Elizabeth. Manhattan for Rent, 1785–1850. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. Blumin, Stuart M. The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760–1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Faflik, David. “Community, Civility, Compromise: Dr. Holmes’s Boston Boardinghouse.” New England Quarterly 78, no. 4 (December 2005): 547–569. ———.“Boardinghouse Life, Boardinghouse Letters.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 40, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 27–43. Gibian,Peter.OliverWendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation.NewYork:Cambridge University Press, 2001. Kelley,Wyn.Melville’s City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century NewYork.New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Klimasmith,Betsy.At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture , 1850–1930. Lebanon: University Press of New England, 2005. McDermott,John Francis.“Whitman and the Partons:Glimpses from the Diary of Thomas Butler Gunn, 1856–1860.”American Literature 29, no. 3 (November 1957): 316–319. Marcus, Sharon. Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Modell, John, and Tamara K. Hareven, “Urbanization and the Malleable Household: An Examination of Boarding and Lodging in American Families.”In The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective, 2nd ed., ed. Michael Gordon. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978, 51–68. Parry,Albert.Garrets and Pretenders:A History of Bohemianism inAmerica.1933;reprt.New York: Dover Publications, 1960. Stansell, Christine.“Whitman at Pfaff’s: Commercial Culture, Literary Life and New York Bohemia at Mid-Century.”WaltWhitman Quarterly Review 10,no.3 (Winter 1993):107– 126. Warren,JoyceW.Fanny Fern: An IndependentWoman (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992). ...