At home in the city
Subtitle: urban domesticity in American literature and culture, 1850-1930
By: Betsy Klimasmith.
Series: Becoming modern
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781584654964; 9781584654971
Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Architecture, Domestic -- United States; Architecture, Domestic, in literature; City and town life -- United States; City and town life in literature; Dwellings in literature; Family in literature; Home in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Architectural determinism and the industrial city in The Blithedale Romance and Ruth Hall; title: The city's drawing-room : spatial practice in The Bostonians and Central Park; title: The tenement home : pushing the city's limits; title: The apartment as utopia : reimagining the city, reconstructing the home; title: From artifact to investment : hotel homes, the economics of luxury, and the custom of the country; title: The paradox of intimacy : mobility, sociology, and the function of home in Quicksand.