19th-century American literature
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American literary sensationalism
and vice themes
Author_George Lippard
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city mysteries genre
class inequality themes
controversial books of the 1800s
corruption and power themes
cult classic American fiction
early American popular culture
early mass-market fiction
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forgotten American novelists
gender and power in fiction
gritty city life portrayal
historical crime narrative
historical literary scandal
historical urban studies in literature
journalism and fiction crossover
labor activism in literature
literary expose tradition
literature of protest and reform
melodramatic social critique
moral panic in literature
morality tale with scandal
penny press era writing
political allegory in fiction
popular fiction of the 1800s
power
print culture history
prostitution in literature studies
radical democratic thought
rediscovered nineteenth-century works
reform movements in storytelling
reform-era storytelling
reformist storytelling
secret societies in fiction
seduction novel tradition
sensational reform novel
sensational urban drama
social justice in early novels
taboo subjects in classic fiction
temperance and vice movements
transgressive nineteenth-century novel
underground city narrative
urban gothic fiction
urban underworld narrative
vice and virtue narrative
Victorian era scandal fiction
wealth
women in peril trope
working-class representation
Product details
- ISBN 9780870239717
- Weight: 715g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jul 1995
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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America's best-selling novel in its time, ""The Quaker City"", published in 1845, is a sensational expose of social corruption, personal debauchery and the sexual exploitation of women in antebellum Philadelphia. This new edition, with an introduction by David S. Reynolds, brings back into print this important work by George Lippard (1822-1854), a journalist, freethinker and labour and social reformer.
