Embodiment of a nation : human form in American places /

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"From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Henry David Thoreau's vision of Cape Cod as the "bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the U.S. environment has been recurrently represented in terms of the human body. Exploring such instan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tichi, Cecelia, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
Temas:
National characteristics, American.
Human body > Social aspects > United States > History.
Anthropomorphism.
Landscapes > United States > Psychological aspects > History.
Landscapes > Social aspects > United States > History.
Historic sites > United States.
Anthropomorphisme.
Paysages > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique > Histoire.
Paysages > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
anthropomorphism.
Anthropomorphism
Ecology
Historic sites
Human body > Social aspects
Intellectual life
Landscapes > Psychological aspects
Landscapes > Social aspects
National characteristics, American
Topografie
Körper
Kulturelle Identität
United States > Intellectual life.
United States > History, Local.
United States > Environmental conditions.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
United States
USA
History
Local history
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Crania Americana
  • Mt. Rushmore: heads of state and states of heads
  • Walden Pond: head trips
  • Frontier incarnations
  • Pittsburgh at Yellowstone: Old Faithful and the pulse of industrial America
  • America's moon: "A dream of the future's face"
  • Bon Aqua
  • Hot Springs: American Hygeia
  • Love Canal: Hygeia's crisis.

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