Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America

Name: Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780801885716

ISBN-10: 080188571X

ISBN-13: 9780801885716

Edition: 2007

Authors: Wendy Gamber

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In nineteenth-century America, the bourgeois home epitomized family, morality, and virtue. But this era also witnessed massive urban growth and the acceptance of the market as the overarching model for economic relations. A rapidly changing environment bred the antithesis of "home": the urban boardinghouse. In this groundbreaking study, Wendy Gamber explores the experiences of the numerous people -- old and young, married and single, rich and poor -- who made boardinghouses their homes. Gamber contends that the very existence of the boardinghouse helped create the domestic ideal of the single family home. Where the home was private, the boardinghouse theoretically was public. If homes…

Book details

List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 4/16/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.06" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction : houses and homes



Away from home



Keeping house



"The most cruel and thankless way a woman can earn her living"



Boarders' beefs



Nests of crime and dens of vice



"Will they board, or keep house?"



Charity begins at home


Epilogue : "decay of the boarding-house"