Embodiment of a Nation : : Human Form in American Places /

Embodiment of a Nation : : Human Form in American Places / / Cecelia Tichi.

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From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod as "the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the American environment has been represented in terms of the human body. Exploring such instances of embodiment, Cecel...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Tichi, Cecelia,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
©2001
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (317 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I Crania Americana
  • 1 Mt. Rushmore: Heads of State and States of Heads
  • 2 Walden Pond: Head Trips
  • II Frontier Incarnations
  • 3 Pittsburgh at Yellowstone: Old Faithful and the Pulse of Industrial America
  • 4 America’s Moon: “A Dream of the Future’s Face”
  • III Bon Aqua
  • 5 Hot Springs: American Hygeia
  • 6 Love Canal: Hygeia’s Crisis
  • Notes
  • References
  • Credits
  • Index

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