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| Publisher | Oxford University Press, Usa |
| ISBN 13 | 9780199970964 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199970963 |
| Author | Samuel Otter |
| Language | English |
| Book Subtitle | America'S Literature Of Race And Freedom |
| Book Description | In Philadelphia Stories, Samuel Otter finds literary value, historical significance, and political urgency in a sequence of texts written in and about Philadelphia between the Constitution and the Civil War. Historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have chronicled the distinctive social and political space of early national Philadelphia. Yet while individual writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and George Lippard have been linked to Philadelphia, no sustained attempt has been made to understand these figures, and many others, as writing in a tradition tied to the city's history. The site of William Penn's "Holy Experiment" in religious toleration and representative government and of national Declaration and Constitution, near the |
| Edition Number | Reprint Edition |
| Publication Date | 25-Feb-10 |
| Number of Pages | 410 |
Philadelphia Stories paperback english - 25-Feb-10
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