Suburban Plots : Men at Home in Nineteenth-Century American Print Culture

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Colonizing the Countryside, Plotting the Suburbs -- Chapter 1. Thoreau's Unreal Estate: Playing House at Walden Pond -- Chapter 2. "To Build, as Trees Grow, Season by Sea...
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Colonizing the Countryside, Plotting the Suburbs -- Chapter 1. Thoreau's Unreal Estate: Playing House at Walden Pond -- Chapter 2. "To Build, as Trees Grow, Season by Season": Henry Ward Beecher's Domestic Organicism -- Chapter 3. "A Man's Sense of Domesticity": Donald Grant Mitchell's Home Relish -- Chapter 4. Advancement and Association, Nostalgia and Exclusion: Hawthorne and the Suburban Romance -- Chapter 5. A Networked Wilderness of Print: Textual Suburbanization in Willis's Home Journal -- Chapter 6. Speculative Manhood: Living Fiction in the Country-Book Genre -- Afterword: Suburban Nostalgia, then and Now -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover. Ausführliche Beschreibung