{"product_id":"urban-rehearsals-and-novel-plots-betsy-klimasmith-9780192846211","title":"Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City","description":"\u003cem\u003eUrban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City\u003c\/em\u003e sheds new light on the literature of the early US by exploring how literature, theatre, architecture, and images worked together to allow readers to imagine themselves as urbanites even before cities developed. In the four decades following the Revolutionary War, the new nation was a loose network of nascent cities connected by print. Before a national culture could develop, local city cultures took shape; literary texts played key roles in helping new Americans become city people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on extensive archival research, \u003cem\u003eUrban Rehearsals\u003c\/em\u003e argues that literature, particularly novels and plays, allowed Bostonians to navigate the transition from colonial town to post-revolution city, enabled Philadelphians to grieve their experiences of the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic and rebuild in the epidemic's aftermath, and showed New Yorkers how the domestic practices that reinforced their urbanity could be opened to the broader public. Throughout, attention to underrepresented voices and texts calls attention to the possibilities for women, immigrants, and Black Americans in developing urban spaces, while showing how those possibilities would be foreclosed as the nation developed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBalancing attention to canonical texts of the early Republic, including \u003cem\u003eThe Power of Sympathy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCharlotte Temple\u003c\/em\u003e, and Benjamin Franklin's \u003cem\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/em\u003e, with novels whose depiction of early cities deserves greater attention, such as Ormond, \u003cem\u003eThe Boarding-School, Monima\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eKelroy\u003c\/em\u003e, this volume shows how US cities developed on the pages and stages of the early Republic, building urban imaginations that would construct the nation's early cities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Betsy Klimasmith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192846213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192846211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.54h x 6.53w x 0.93d","brand":"Betsy Klimasmith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995415314687,"sku":"9780192846211","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a3404e10-49b0-4792-bbc9-fc2c4c44162f.jpg?v=1683335691","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/urban-rehearsals-and-novel-plots-betsy-klimasmith-9780192846211","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}