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Subtitle: architecture, race, and American literature
By: William A. Gleason
Series: America and the long 19th century
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780814732465; 9780814732472; 9780814732489
Subjects: Architecture and literature; Architecture in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Race in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Race, writing, architecture: American patterns; title: Cottage desire: The bondwoman's narrative and the politics of antebellum space; title: Piazza tales: Architecture, race, and memory in Charles Chesnutt's conjure stories; title: Imperial bungalow: structures of empire in Richard Harding Davis and Olga Beatriz Torres; title: Keyless rooms: Frank Lloyd Wright and Charlie Chan; title: Coda: Black cabin, white house.