Home in America : : On Loss and Retrieval / / Thomas Dumm.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2019
• VerfasserIn: Dumm, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Prologue: Dad --; 1. Habitations of the Human --; 2. Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello --; 3. Henry David Thoreau’s Walden --; 4. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little Houses --; 5. Emily Dickinson’s House of Possibility --; 6. Herman Wallace’s Dream House --; Epilogue: Mom, Revisited --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674243781; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674243781
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thomas Dumm.

Americans encounter their homes in ways comforting and haunting: as an imagined refuge or a place of mastery and domination, a destination or a place to escape. Drawing on literature, personal experience, and the histories of slavery, incarceration, and homesteading, Thomas Dumm offers a meditation on the richness and poverty of the idea of home.