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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2010-03-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/1190