{"title":"Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City by Betsy Klimasmith (review)","authors":"Beth Barton Schweiger","doi":"10.1353/jer.2023.a915189","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how people read, wrote, and imagined American cities from the earliest decades of the republic. Focusing on works of fiction produced or set in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York, it argues that fiction enabled readers to rehearse urbanity at a time when British culture continued to dominate the former colonies. Klimasmith rereads novels, plays, letters","PeriodicalId":45213,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2023.a915189","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study examines how people read, wrote, and imagined American cities from the earliest decades of the republic. Focusing on works of fiction produced or set in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York, it argues that fiction enabled readers to rehearse urbanity at a time when British culture continued to dominate the former colonies. Klimasmith rereads novels, plays, letters
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The Journal of the Early Republic is a quarterly journal committed to publishing the best scholarship on the history and culture of the United States in the years of the early republic (1776–1861). JER is published for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. SHEAR membership includes an annual subscription to the journal.
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