| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
America and the long 19th century
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America and the long 19th century.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Race, writing, architecture: American patterns -- Cottage desire: The bondwoman's narrative and the politics of antebellum space -- Piazza tales: Architecture, race, and memory in Charles Chesnutt's conjure stories -- Imperial bungalow: structures of empire in Richard Harding Davis and Olga Beatriz Torres -- Keyless rooms: Frank Lloyd Wright and Charlie Chan -- Coda: Black cabin, white house. |
| Summary |
Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture, the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about architecture became a prominent part of broader conversations about American culture, history, politics, and-although we have not yet understood this clearly-race relations. This rich and copiously illustrated interdisciplinary study explores the ways that American writing between roughly 1850 and 1930 concerned itself, often intensely, with the. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Architecture in literature.
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Architecture in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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Architecture and literature.
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Architecture and literature. |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gleason, William A. Sites unseen. New York : New York University Press, ©2011 9780814732465 (DLC) 2011007837 (OCoLC)697261041 |
| ISBN |
9780814732489 electronic book |
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0814732488 electronic book |
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9780814733271 electronic book |
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0814733271 electronic book |
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9780814732465 |
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0814732461 |
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9780814732472 |
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081473247X |
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