Suburban plots [electronic resource] : men at home in nineteenth-century American print culture / Maura D'Amore.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in print culture and history of the book | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9781613763117
- 1613763115
- 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
- HT352.U6 D25 2014
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.
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