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Home in America : On Loss and Retrieval / Thomas Dumm.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674243781
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.850973 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ535 .D76 2019eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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