2006, ISBN: 0415976405

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780415976404], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Routledge], LITERARY CRITICISM ANALYSIS URBANISM 18TH CENTURY 19TH US USA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA EDGAR ALLAN HERMAN ARTIFICIAL ASSOC… More...

[EAN: 9780415976404], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Routledge], LITERARY CRITICISM ANALYSIS URBANISM 18TH CENTURY 19TH US USA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA EDGAR ALLAN HERMAN ARTIFICIAL ASSOCIATED BODY CITIZENS CIVILIZATION CRIME DISCOURSES EFFECTS EXAMINATION EXPRESSION FIDELE FORMS GOTHIC HIDDEN HOMES HUMAN IDEAS IMAGINATION IMPORTANT INTERPRETATION IROQUOIS KIND LANGUAGE MEANINGS MERGING NARRATIVE NARRATOR NATURE NOVEL ORIGINAL PAST PERFORMANCE POLITICAL PRINTED PRISON PUNISHMENT READERS RELATION REPRESENTATION SECRET SENSE SETTING SLAVE SOCIAL SOCIETY SPACES STORY STRUCTURE TAKES TALE TEXTS THOUGHT TRANSFORM TRANSFORMATION TRIBES WRITTEN YORK ABORIGINAL REMAINS DRAMA PSYCHE ACTORS LANDSCAPE AUTHORSHIP APOCALYPTIC VISION OLD WORLD ARCHITECTURAL ART INDIANS NATIVE ARTIFACT ARTEFACT DRAMATIC PORTRAYAL NATURAL ATTICS CONCEALMENT FICTIONAL AUTHOR SELF SEVERANCE BASEMENT BIBLE BIBLICAL BLACK GUINEA BONDAGE BURIAL GUILT GROUND BUSINESS VENTURE CHERRY HILL CHRISTIANITY PENAL SYSTEM CIVILISATION ANTITHESIS DE WITT COMPETITION CONFEDERATION SIX NATIONS SLAVERY IMPRISONMENT MAPPING CREEK CRIMINALITY VISUAL CRYSTAL PALACE RELATIONSHIP DARKNESS DEATH DECEPTION DISCLOSURE PRIVATE PUBLIC SPHERE DISTRUST METAPHOR EPIDEMICS LINKING THEATRICAL ENCLOSED ENLIGHTENMENT EXTINCTION HOUSE STRATEGIC SYMBOLISM CORRUPTION INSUBSTANTIALITY FREED FUGITIVE RITUAL STEAMBOAT GOVERNANCE HISTORY TRANSIENCE ISOLATION JEFFERSON LEGAL SOURCE WESTERN NATIONALITY MOBILITY MUSEUM SPECULATION TRUTH CONTRIBUTION GRAVEYARD POETRY RECLAMATION NEWSPAPER GEOGRAPHIC DISTINCTION ONEIDA PEACE AGREEMENT PERSONIFICATION DISEASE PLAGUE POLITICS POST REVOLUTIONARY POPULAR PRINT WEST SURVEILLANCE TOMB LIFE INVASION INTEREST REVELATION TRIBAL SENECA SHARED MEANING THOMAS SIMS TRIAL TEXTUALITY DISORDER SPECTATORSHIP SPIRITUALITY INFLUENCE SITUATEDNESS SPIRITUAL STABILITY STADIALIST THEORY STORYTELLING THEATER THEATRE TREATY NEGOTIATION TRUST MATERIALITY DISASTER ANTAGONISM THEME VALUE GEORGE WASHINGTON CHARITY, Architecture|History, Literary Criticism|American|Native American, Social Science|Anthropology|Cultural, History|United States|General, Literary Criticism|American|General, Architecture|Criticism, History|United States|19th Century, Science|Earth Sciences|Geography, Hardcover, xi + 198 pages, NOT ex-library. Short corner creases. Book is clean, bright, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show small edge-indentations and short creases. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This study reexamines the ethos of national progress by analyzing how American writers import images of ruins from European aesthetics to cast the city as a site of instability and cultural impermanence. While highlighting the transatlantic currency of ruin imagery, the study demonstrates through interdisciplinary analyses of architecture and material culture how American images of ruin intersect with the symbolic geographies of city and home to shape and reflect citizenship, law, and perceptions of race. Arguing that ruin imagery works to disclose the culture's inner dimensions, the study incorporates deep archival research and synthesizes theories on geography and architecture to read unstable settings in the works of Philip Freneau, Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, and Melville. The study focuses on the ways these writers relied on ruin imagery to interpret such subjects as Anglo-Indian relations in the nation's early capital; the dialogue between secrecy and yellow fever in 1790s Philadelphia; the impact of antebellum penitentiaries on conceptions of mind and domestic space; and the mutability of nationhood in the decade just before the Civil War. The book provides dynamic ways of reading the relationships among urban culture, ruin, concepts of instability, and the formation of American literature. -- Contents: Introduction; Framing the Indian: Children of the Forest on the Urban Scene [New Cities, Savage Guests; Fictions of Passing: Freneau's 'Tomo Cheeki'; Ruins in the Present: Peale and Clinton]; "The Idea of this Room": Houses and the Image of Fiction in Arthur Mervyn [Signs of Secrecy; Houses of Fiction]; "Haunts about Town": Poe's Tales and Eastern State Penitentiary [Crowd Control: Solitary Confinement and the City; Fictions of Confinement; Confessions in Place]; City Behind the Masquerade of Fiction: Melville's The Confidence-Man [A Ship and Its Detritus; Character of Geographical Fictions; A Nation in Fragments]; Notes; Bibliography; Index, Books<