Böcker av David Faflik

This book examines how the city peoples of New York and Paris interpreted their urban surroundings during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. At the center of this examination are the literary, material, political, and visual forms which afforded contemporaries new ways of "reading" the modern metropolis.

Explores the process by which boardinghouse life was translated into a lively urban vernacular. This work is at once an essential introduction to a 'lost' world of boarding, even as it comprises an early, engaging, and sophisticated analysis of America's 'urban turn' during the decades leading up to the Civil War.

Revised version of the author's dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005.