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Book Review


Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature. By Bryan Waterman. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xvi, 318 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8566-2.)
In this cultural study of New York's Friendly Club, which flourished in the 1790s, Bryan Waterman sets out two aims: to examine the contexts of friendship, gender, conversation, and association in the urban world of the early republic and to analyze the "knowledge industries" sustained and promoted by club members (p. 12). Though the link between the two seems tenuous at first, when it becomes clearer that the club's literary activities both resulted from and extended this "world of association," Waterman's book reveals itself as a truly enlightening case study of the synergy between literary and intellectual culture (p. 13). . . .
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