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Dumm, Thomas

Home in America : On Loss and Retrieval / Thomas Dumm. - 1 online resource (240 p.)

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

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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 on the richness and poverty of the idea of home.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9780674243781

Standard No.: 10.4159/9780674243781 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Home in literature.
Home in popular culture--History.--United States
Home--History.--United States
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: HQ535 / .D76 2019eb

Dewey Class. No.: 306.850973