"Already in 1854, Henry David Thoreau had declared in Walden that "Most men appear never to have considered what a house is" (225). Like Thoreau, many other renowned American writers have considered what houses are and, particularly, what houses do, and they have created fictional dwe...

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Hauptverfasser:	Andrés, Rodrigo (VerfasserIn, HerausgeberIn), Alsina Rísquez, Cristina (VerfasserIn, HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Leiden ; Boston Brill [2022]
Schriftenreihe:	European perspectives on the United States volume 3
Schlagworte:	Haus > Motiv Literatur USA American fiction / History and criticism Dwellings in literature Space in literature Literary criticism Essays Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	"Already in 1854, Henry David Thoreau had declared in Walden that "Most men appear never to have considered what a house is" (225). Like Thoreau, many other renowned American writers have considered what houses are and, particularly, what houses do, and they have created fictional dwellings that function not only as settings, but as actual central characters in their works. The volume is specifically concerned with the structure, the organization, and the objects inside houses, and argues that the space defined by rooms and their contents influences the consciousness, the imaginations, and the experiences of the humans who inhabit them"
Beschreibung:	X, 292 Seiten
ISBN:	9789004520318