Philadelphia Stories analyzes the narratives about race, character, manners, violence, and freedom that unfold across a range of texts written in and about Philadelphia between 1790 and 1860. Philadelphia was seen as the stage on which racial character would be tested and a possible post-slavery future played out. Otter argues that this setting produced a largely unacknowledged literary tradition of peculiar forms and intensities, in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation.
Philadelphia Stories analyzes the narratives about race, character, manners, violence, and freedom that unfold across a range of texts written in and about Philadelphia between 1790 and 1860. Philadelphia was seen as the stage on which racial character would be tested and a possible post-slavery future played out. Otter argues that this setting produced a largely unacknowledged literary tradition of peculiar forms and intensities, in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation.
Samuel Otter is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Melville's Anatomies and the coeditor, with Geoffrey Sanborn, of Melville and Aesthetics.
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* INTRODUCTION: Philadelphia Stories, 1790-1860 * 1. FEVER * Mathew Carey, Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and the Color of Fever * Ministers and Criminals: Richard Allen, John Joyce, and Peter Matthias * Benjamin Rush's Heroic Interventions * Mathew Carey's Fugitive Philadelphians * Charles Brockden Brown's Experiments in Character * 2. MANNERS * Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and the Irrepressible Teague * Edward W. Clay's "Life in Philadelphia" * "The Rage for Profiles": Silhouettes at Peale's Museum * Philadelphia Metempsychosis in Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee * "The Peculiar Position of Our People": William Whipper and Debates in the Black Conventions * Disfranchisement and Appeal * Joseph Willson's Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia * 3. RIOT * "Doomed to Destruction": The History of Pennsylvania Hall * The Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia, and Henry James's American Scene The Mysteries of the City: George Lippard, Edgar Allan Poe * The Fiction of Riot: George Lippard, John Beauchamp Jones * The Condition of the Free People of Color * 4. FREEDOM * The Struggle over "Philadelphia": Mary Howard Schoolcraft, Sara Josepha * Hale, Martin Robison Delany, James McCune Smith, and William * Whipper * Frank J. Webb's The Garies and Their Friends * "A Rather Curious Protest" * Still Life in Georgia * History and Farce * Parlor and Riot * Philadelphia Vanitas * The Social Experiment in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno * CODA: John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia * Bibliography
* INTRODUCTION: Philadelphia Stories, 1790-1860 * 1. FEVER * Mathew Carey, Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, and the Color of Fever * Ministers and Criminals: Richard Allen, John Joyce, and Peter Matthias * Benjamin Rush's Heroic Interventions * Mathew Carey's Fugitive Philadelphians * Charles Brockden Brown's Experiments in Character * 2. MANNERS * Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and the Irrepressible Teague * Edward W. Clay's "Life in Philadelphia" * "The Rage for Profiles": Silhouettes at Peale's Museum * Philadelphia Metempsychosis in Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee * "The Peculiar Position of Our People": William Whipper and Debates in the Black Conventions * Disfranchisement and Appeal * Joseph Willson's Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia * 3. RIOT * "Doomed to Destruction": The History of Pennsylvania Hall * The Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia, and Henry James's American Scene The Mysteries of the City: George Lippard, Edgar Allan Poe * The Fiction of Riot: George Lippard, John Beauchamp Jones * The Condition of the Free People of Color * 4. FREEDOM * The Struggle over "Philadelphia": Mary Howard Schoolcraft, Sara Josepha * Hale, Martin Robison Delany, James McCune Smith, and William * Whipper * Frank J. Webb's The Garies and Their Friends * "A Rather Curious Protest" * Still Life in Georgia * History and Farce * Parlor and Riot * Philadelphia Vanitas * The Social Experiment in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno * CODA: John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia * Bibliography
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