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Anatomy of the promenade: The politics of bourgeois sociability in nineteenth‐century New York∗

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Literature and Culture Studies Urban and sociocultural dynamics Night-time city culture

Abstract

Bourgeois New Yorkers of the Victorian era loved to promenade. Throughout most of the nineteenth century, they made seeing and being seen, in public and in motion, a core rite of sociability made it, in fact, a test of inclusion within the metropolitan gentry. Consider this sketch, by the popular mid-century journalist George Foster, of Broadway on Sunday 'at the grand promenade hour' of six o'clock:

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