Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature

by Bryan Waterman

In the 1790s, a single conversational circle--the Friendly Club--united New York City's most ambitious young writers, and in Republic of Intellect, Bryan Waterman uses an innovative blend of literary criticism and historical narrative to re-create the club's intellectual culture. The story of the Friendly Club reveals the mutually informing conditions of authorship, literary association, print culture, and production of knowledge in a specific...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801885663
• ISBN13: 9780801885662
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.1"