Originally published: New York : Mason Brothers, 1857.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200).
CONTENTS NOTE
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on the Text; The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses; Explanatory Notes; Further Reading; About the Editor.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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JSTOR
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195878
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22573/ctt4jtqc1
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Title
Physiology of New York boarding-houses.
International Standard Book Number
0813544394
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Boardinghouses-- New York (State)-- New York-- 19th century.
Lodging-houses-- New York (State)-- New York-- 19th century.
Boardinghouses.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Small Business.
LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
Lodging-houses.
Manners and customs.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
New York (N.Y.), Social life and customs, 19th century.