Title
- Becoming Modern
Attribution
Betsy KlimasmithPublication Details
BookUniversity Press of New England2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS374.D57 K57 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
In the middle of the nineteenth century, urban families began to inhabit apartment houses, boarding houses, tenements, and hotels. Imaginatively juxtaposing literary criticism with a history of the built environment, Klimasmith examines urban domestic fiction alongside architectural, sociological, and photographic texts of the period, pairing important American novels with developments in urban domestic architecture. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)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
- Family in literature
- Home in literature
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Contents
- Architectural determinism and the industrial city in The Blithedale Romance and Ruth Hall
- City’s drawing-room : spatial practice in The Bostonians and Central Park
- Tenement home : pushing the city’s limits
- 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
- Paradox of intimacy : mobility, sociology, and the function of home in Quicksand
ISBN
- 158465497x
- 1584654961
- 158465497x
- 9781584654964
- 9781584654971
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