Home in America on loss and retrieval

"Home as an imagined refuge. Home as a place of mastery and domination. Home as a destination and the place we try to escape from. Thomas Dumm explores these distinctively American understandings of home. He takes us from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Henry David Thoreau's Walden...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dumm, Thomas L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2019
Subjects:
Home > United States > History.
Home in popular culture > United States > History.
Home in literature.
Foyer > États-Unis > Histoire.
Foyer dans la culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
Foyer dans la littérature.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Home
Home in literature
Home in popular culture
Race relations
United States > Race relations > History.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Dad
  • Habitations of the human
  • Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
  • Henry David Thoreau's Walden
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House
  • Emily Dickinson's House of Possibility
  • Herman Wallace's Dream House
  • Epilogue: Mom, revisited

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