Capital Speculations
Writing and Building Washington, D.C.
Sarah Luria

University of New Hampshire Press
University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments • Introduction • The Politics of Circulation • George Washington’s Romance: Plotting the Federal City, 1791–1800 • The Poetry of Internal Improvements: Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman in Civil War Washington
• Models of National Domesticity • A House United: Frederick Douglass’s Interracial Domesticity during Reconstruction
• Democracy’s Church: The Hay-Adams Houses during the Gilded Age
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index




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