The physiology of New York boarding-houses / Thomas Butler Gunn ; edited and with an introduction by David Faflik.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 200 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813546216
- 0813546214
- 1281958786
- 9781281958785
- 9786611958787
- 6611958789
- Lodging-houses -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century
- Boardinghouses -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Pensions de famille -- New York (État) -- New York -- 19e siècle
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Small Business
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- Boardinghouses
- Lodging-houses
- Manners and customs
- New York (State) -- New York
- 1800-1899
- 647.9409747/109034 22
- HD7288.U4 G86 2009eb
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Originally published: New York : Mason Brothers, 1857.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200).
Print version record.
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on the Text; The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses; Explanatory Notes; Further Reading; About the Editor.
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.
English.
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