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
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