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Remodeling the Nation (Paperback)
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In this interdisciplinary study, Faherty argues that throughout the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Americans
conceptualized their still unsettled political and social states
through metaphors of home building. During this period, a pervasive
concern with the design and furnishing of houses helped writers to
manage previous encounters with settlements, both native and
European, and to imagine and remodel a new national ideal. By
aligning the period's architectural concerns (registered in both
the interior and exterior of houses) with concurrent debates about
the need to create a national identity in the wake of the American
Revolution, Faherty registers how representations of the house were
a crucial locus for debating broadly shared concerns about the
anxieties of nation building.
Topics include Abraham Lincoln's use of architectural motifs in his
1858 senatorial campaign (the "house divided against itself "
speech); the arguments about domestic identity embodied in the
designs of Mount Vernon and Monticello; the lingering import of
colonial and indigenous settlements on post-revolutionary culture
as registered in the work of William Bartram and Lewis and Clark;
Charles Brockden Brown's representations of the multivalent
legacies of Pennsylvania's architectural landscapes; Washington
Irving's attempts to preserve and remodel national architectural
and literary practices by underscoring the manufactured nature of
European cultural production; the shifting importance of the house
and American attitudes toward nature in the work of three
generations of the Cooper family; and the gendering of domestic
space in the work of Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and
Herman Melville.
Richly informed by contemporary work in literary studies, history,
art history, and cultural criticism, Remodeling the Nation ranges
incisively across the work of political theorists, social critics,
novelists, poets, natural historians, landscape artists, travel
writers, and authors of architectural and domestic treatises.
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