@booklet {8400, title = {The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall. A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime}, year = {1844}, note = {

Rpt. as\ The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall. A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime. With Illustrations, and the Author\’s Portrait and Autograph. Philadelphia, PA: Leary, Stuart, \& Co., [1876], with the author\’s \“Preface to this Edition\” (1-2). Rpt. as\ The Monks of Monk Hall. New York: Odyssey Press 1970 with an \“Introduction by Leslie Fiedler (vii-xxxii). Rpt. ed. David S. Reynolds (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995 with an \“Introduction\” by Reynolds (vii-xliv).

}, month = {1844-45}, publisher = {G.B. Zieber \& Co. }, address = {Philadelphia, PA}, abstract = {

Mostly a sensational novel as reflected in the title, that, in the \“Preface to this Edition,\” the author says describes \“all the phases of a corrupt social system, as manifested in the city of Philadelphia. There is a brief dystopia, \“The Last Says of the Quaker City\” (372-93), and a brief eutopia, \“The Temple of Ravoni\” (525-37). On these utopian dimensions, see Nathaniel Williams, \“George Lippard\’s Fragile Utopian Future and 1840s American Economic Turmoil.\” Utopian Studies 24.2 (2013): 166-83.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Lippard (1822-1854)} }