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Embodiment of a Nation : Human Form in American Places /
From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod as "the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the American environment has been represented in terms of the human body. Exploring such instances of embodiment, Cecel...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I Crania Americana
- 1 Mt. Rushmore: Heads of State and States of Heads
- 2 Walden Pond: Head Trips
- II Frontier Incarnations
- 3 Pittsburgh at Yellowstone: Old Faithful and the Pulse of Industrial America
- 4 America's Moon: "A Dream of the Future's Face"
- III Bon Aqua
- 5 Hot Springs: American Hygeia
- 6 Love Canal: Hygeia's Crisis
- Notes
- References
- Credits
- Index