Early Nineteenth-Century New Yorkers and the Invention of New York City
This essay explores the « invention » of New York City in the antebellum era, or the parallel forms of cultural processes and elaborations that led to the emergence of a new sense of self-awareness in the city. It first evokes the contradictory ways in which a literary and artistic culture developed...
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Main Author: | François WEIL |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2010-03-01
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Series: | E-REA |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/1190 |
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