miker,
George Lippard's The Quaker City or the Monks of
Monk Hall is a great read. Gothic, lurid, crime-ridden.
Technically, it's a "sensational" novel of the 19th century
(in fact, it was the all-time bestselling novel in America
until Uncle Tom's Cabin). It also falls into the category of
"city mysteries" a 19th century genre that featured nefarious
(and often gothic) goings on in urban environments. I have a
website about Lippard and Quaker City:
http://www.omnigatherum.com/QuakerCityFront.html
and just so all this doesn't seem too OT, I'll be
talking about Lippard as a proto-noir writer at NoirCon2008
in Philly. Robert Polito will present on New York Lippard and
I'll be doing the Philly stuff.
http://www.noircon.com/
Ed
The Bibliothecary, a blog of literary
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