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Suburban plots

D'Amore, Maura, 1978-

Suburban plots men at home in nineteenth-century American print culture / [electronic resource] : Maura D'Amore. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Studies in print culture and history of the book . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781613763117 1613763115


Books and reading--History--United States--19th century.
Suburban life in literature.
Suburbs in literature.
Men in literature.
Men--Books and reading--History--United States--19th century.
Suburban life--History--United States--19th century.
Suburbs--History--United States--19th century.


Electronic books.

HT352.U6 / D25 2014