God In The Street: New York Writing from The Penny Press to Melville
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Author(s)Hans Bergmann
PublisherTemple University Press
ISBN / ASIN1566393582
ISBN-139781566393584
Sales Rank3,919,572
CategoryLiterary Criticism
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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In the fast changing culture of antebellum New York, writers of every stripe celebrated 'the City' as a stage for the daily urban encounter between the familiar and the inexplicable. Probing into these richly varied texts, this book covers the innovations in writing that accompanied the new market society.
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