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Introduction: Philadelphia Stories, 1790-1860 | p. 3 |
Fever | p. 25 |
The Color of Fever | p. 29 |
Ministers and Criminals | p. 40 |
Heroic Interventions | p. 46 |
Fugitive Philadelphians | p. 52 |
Experiments in Character | p. 58 |
Manners | p. 71 |
The Irrepressible Teague | p. 73 |
"Life in Philadelphia" | p. 81 |
"The Rage for Profiles": Silhouettes at Peak's Museum | p. 89 |
Philadelphia Metempsychosis in Robert Montgomery Bird's | p. 95 |
"The Peculiar Position of Our People": William Whipper and Debates in the Black Conventions | p. 107 |
Disfranchisement and Appeal | p. 118 |
Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia | p. 123 |
Riot | p. 131 |
"Doomed to Destruction": The History of Pennsylvania Hall | p. 138 |
The Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia, and Henry James's American Scene | p. 157 |
The Mysteries of the City | p. 165 |
The Fiction of Riot | p. 182 |
The Condition of the Free People of Color | p. 202 |
Freedom | p. 211 |
The Struggle over "Philadelphia" | p. 212 |
The Garies and. Their Friends: "A Rather Curious Protest" | p. 224 |
Still Life in Georgia | p. 230 |
History and Farce | p. 237 |
Parlor and Riot | p. 244 |
Philadelphia Vanitas | p. 252 |
The Social Experiment in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno | p. 266 |
Coda: John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia | p. 279 |
Notes | p. 289 |
Bibliography | p. 343 |
Index | p. 371 |
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