Home in America : : On Loss and Retrieval / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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