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

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 labor and social reformer.

About the author

Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, David S. Reynolds is author of numerous books, including Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography and the prize-winning Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville.

Summary

The Quaker City is an expose of social corruption, personal debauchery and the sexual exploitation of women in the antebellum Philadelphia. "The Monks of the Monk Hall" illuminates urban America in the 19th century. Both these novels are edited and introduced in this volume.

Product details

• Authors: George Lippard
• Assisted by: David Reynolds (Editor), David S. Reynolds (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Massachusetts Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1995
• EAN: 9780870239717
• ISBN: 978-0-87023-971-7
• No. of pages: 632
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 210 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 699 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Kriminalromane und Mystery, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Classics, Literature - Classics / Criticism