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At home in the city : urban domesticity in American literature and culture, 1850-1930
- Title
- At home in the city : urban domesticity in American literature and culture, 1850-1930 / Betsy Klimasmith.
- Author
- Klimasmith, Elizabeth, 1969-
- Publication
- Hanover : University Press of New England ; Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press, c2005.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 293 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Becoming modern
- Uniform Title
- Becoming modern.
- Subject
- American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Domestic fiction, American > History and criticism
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Architecture, Domestic > United States
- Architecture, Domestic, in literature
- City and town life > United States
- City and town life in literature
- Dwellings in literature
- Families in literature
- Home in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-273) and index.
- Contents
- Architectural determinism and the industrial city in The Blithedale Romance and Ruth Hall -- The city's drawing-room : spatial practice in The Bostonians and Central Park -- The tenement home : pushing the city's limits -- The apartment as utopia : reimagining the city, reconstructing the home -- From artifact to investment : hotel homes, the economics of luxury, and the custom of the country -- The paradox of intimacy : mobility, sociology, and the function of home in Quicksand.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-5094
- ISBN
- 9781584654964 (alk. paper)
- 1584654961 (alk. paper)
- 9781584654971 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 158465497X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005019248
- OCLC
- 61027384
- Author
- Klimasmith, Elizabeth, 1969-
- Title
- At home in the city : urban domesticity in American literature and culture, 1850-1930 / Betsy Klimasmith.
- Imprint
- Hanover : University Press of New England ; Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press, c2005.
- Series
- Becoming modernBecoming modern.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-273) and index.
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- Other Form:
- Online version: Klimasmith, Elizabeth, 1969- At home in the city. Hanover : University Press of New England ; Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press, c2005 (OCoLC)607750364
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-5094