Suburban plots : men at home in nineteenth-century American print culture /

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"In the middle of nineteenth century, as Americans contended with rapid industrial and technological change, readers relied on periodicals and books for information about their changing world. Within this print culture, a host of writers, editors, architects, and reformers urged men to commute...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: D'Amore, Maura, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.
Temas:
1800-1899
Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century.
Suburban life in literature.
Suburbs in literature.
Men in literature.
Men > Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century.
Suburban life > United States > History > 19th century.
Suburbs > United States > History > 19th century.
Vie de la banlieue dans la littérature.
Banlieues dans la littérature.
Hommes dans la littérature.
Hommes > Livres et lecture > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Vie de la banlieue > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Books and reading
Men > Books and reading
Men in literature
Suburban life
Suburban life in literature
Suburbs
Suburbs in literature
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: colonizing the countryside, plotting the suburbs
  • Thoreau's unreal estate: playing house at Walden Pond
  • "To build, as trees grow, season by season": Henry Ward Beecher's domestic organicism
  • "A man's sense of domesticity": Donald Grant Mitchell's home relish
  • Advancement and association, nostalgia and exclusion: Hawthorne and the suburban romance
  • A networked wilderness of print: textual suburbanization in Hillis's Home journal
  • Speculative manhood: living fiction in the country-book genre
  • Afterword: suburban nostalgia, then and now.

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