Title The physiology of New York boarding-houses / Thomas Butler Gunn ; edited and with an introduction by David Faflik

Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 200 pages) : illustrations Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on the Text; The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses; Explanatory Notes; Further Reading; About the Editor Summary The American boardinghouse once provided basic domestic shelter and constituted a uniquely modern world view for the first true generation of U.S. city-dwellers. Thomas Butler Gunn's classic 1857 account of urban habitation, The Physiology of New York Boarding-Houses, explores the process by which boardinghouse life was translated into a lively urban vernacular. Intimate in its confessional tone, comprehensive in its detail, disarmingly penetrating despite (or perhaps because of) its self-deprecating wit, Physiology is at once an essential introduction to a "lost" world of boarding Notes Originally published: New York : Mason Brothers, 1857 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-200) Notes English Print version record Subject Lodging-houses -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century Boardinghouses -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Small Business. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Boardinghouses Lodging-houses Manners and customs SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007159 Subject New York (State) -- New York Form Electronic book Author Faflik, David, 1972- ISBN 9780813546216 0813546214 1281958786 9781281958785 9786611958787 6611958789

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