The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime [Paperback]

Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY,DAVID S. REYNOLDSis author of numerous books, includingWalt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biographyand the prize-winningBeneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville.

The Monks of Monk Halldeserves always to be in print. A thoroughly challenging book, it contains much that is surprising and greatly illuminates urban America in its period. . . . It would make a superb supplemental reading for the first half of the U.S. history survey, raising vital issues regarding race, gender, and religion in antebellum America. . . . No scholar is more knowledgeable on George Lippard that David Reynolds.David Roediger, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

InThe Quaker City, Lippard is negotiating a great many early nineteeth-century concerns over transitions in the status of masculinity and femininity in working- and middle-class cultures. . . . The book will have a terrific appeal in American literature courses, given the current focus on both canon expansion and the new historicism. It should also find a home in courses in American studies, U.S. history, and women's and gender studies.Dana D. Nelson, Louisiana State University

Lippard is essential to any revisionist study or examination of nineteenth-century American literature, to nineteenth-century social history, to popular culture, to historical cultural studies, and to working-class history and literature.Sheilals„