Book contents
- New York: A Literary History
- New York
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Adaptation and Adjustment
- Part II Innovation and Inspiration
- Chapter 6 Sharing Social Space
- Chapter 7 Health Reform in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York Periodical Press
- Chapter 8 Neoliberal New York
- Chapter 9 The Marvellous and the Mundane
- Part III Identity and Place
- Part IV Tragedy and Hope
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 6 - Sharing Social Space
New York as a City of the Housed and Unhoused
from Part II - Innovation and Inspiration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2020
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Book contents
- New York: A Literary History
- New York
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Adaptation and Adjustment
- Part II Innovation and Inspiration
- Chapter 6 Sharing Social Space
- Chapter 7 Health Reform in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York Periodical Press
- Chapter 8 Neoliberal New York
- Chapter 9 The Marvellous and the Mundane
- Part III Identity and Place
- Part IV Tragedy and Hope
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This research examines the health reform writings of Fuller, Fern, and Whitman in the context of the New York publishing industry, which at the time began promoting diet and exercise regimens as an extension of the goal of strengthening democracy and the body politic. Analysis centers on texts dedicated to health reform that offer alternatives to, and extensions of, Beecher’s Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841), which set the keynote for the topic on a national scale and dominated mainstream understandings of how to build a strong democracy privately in the domestic sphere.
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- New YorkA Literary History, pp. 79 - 93Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020