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Dwelling in the Text - Houses in American Fiction (Hardcover)
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Dwelling in the Text - Houses in American Fiction (Hardcover)
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What is a house? And what can architecture tell us about individual
psychology, national character and aspiration? The house holds a
central place in American mythology, as Marilyn Chandler
demonstrates in a series of "house tours" through American novels,
beginning with Thoreau's Walden and ending with Toni Morrison's
Beloved and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping. Chandler illuminates
the complex analogies between house and psyche, house and family,
house and social environment, and house and text. She traces a
historical path from settlement to unsettledness in American
culture and explores all the rituals in between: of building,
decorating, inhabiting, and abandoning houses. She notes the
ambivalence between our desire for rootedness and our
romanticization of wide open spaces, relating these poles to the
tension between materialism and spirituality in our national
character. At a time when housing has become a problem of
unprecedented dimensions in America, this look at the place of
houses and homes in the American imagination reveals some sources
of the attitudes, assumptions, and expectations that underlie the
designing and building of the homes we buy, sell, and dream about.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1991.
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