Screen LibraryAmerican houses : literary spaces of resistance and desire /
"Already in 1854, Henry David Thoreau had declared in Walden that "Most men appear never to have considered what a house is" (225). Like Thoreau, many other renowned American writers have considered what houses are and, particularly, what houses do, and they have created fictional dwe...
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Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
European perspectives on the United States,
volume 3 |
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| Summary: |
"Already in 1854, Henry David Thoreau had declared in Walden that "Most men appear never to have considered what a house is" (225). Like Thoreau, many other renowned American writers have considered what houses are and, particularly, what houses do, and they have created fictional dwellings that function not only as settings, but as actual central characters in their works. The volume is specifically concerned with the structure, the organization, and the objects inside houses, and argues that the space defined by rooms and their contents influences the consciousness, the imaginations, and the experiences of the humans who inhabit them"-- |
| Carrier Form: | x, 292 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004520318 9004520317 |
| Index Number: | PS374 |
| CLC: | I712.074 |
| Call Number: | I712.074/A512-4 |