Boarding Out - 9780810128385

Boarding Out Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination 18401860\nby David Faflik\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: David Faflik\nTitle: Boarding Out Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination 18401860\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\nPublisher: Northwestern University Press\nPublication year: 2012\nISBN-13: 9780810128385\nISBN-10: 0810128381\nRRP: \u00A329.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nDriven by intensive industrialisation and urbanisation, the nineteenth century saw radical transformations in every facet of life in the United States. Immigrants and rural Americans poured into the nation\u00E2s cities, often ahead of or without their families. As city dwellers adapted to the new metropolis, boarding out became, for a .