Suburban plots : men at home in nineteenth-century American print culture /
In the middle of nineteenth century, as Americans contended with rapid industrial and technological change, readers relied on periodicals and books for information about their changing world. Within this print culture, a host of writers, editors, architects and reformers urged men to commute to and...
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: colonizing the countryside, plotting the suburbs
- Thoreau's unreal estate: playing house at Walden Pond
- "To build, as trees grow, season by season": Henry Ward Beecher's domestic organicism
- "A man's sense of domesticity": Donald Grant Mitchell's home relish
- Advancement and association, nostalgia and exclusion: Hawthorne and the suburban romance
- A networked wilderness of print: textual suburbanization in Hillis's Home journal
- Speculative manhood: living fiction in the country-book genre
- Afterword: suburban nostalgia, then and now.