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American Houses: Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire

American Houses: Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire

Andrés, Rodrigo
Alsina Rísquez, Cristina

Hardcover

Series: European Perspectives on the United States, Book 3

Literary CriticismGeneral Art InstructionGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 9004520317
ISBN13: 9789004520318
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Published: Aug 18 2022
Pages: 304
Language: English
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.

Winner of the Spanish Association for American Studies' Javier Coy Award 2022 for best edited volume.

Contributors are: Cristina Alsina Rísquez, Rodrigo Andrés, Vicent Cucarella-Ramon, Arturo Corujo, Mar Gallego, Ian Green, Michael Jonik, Wyn Kelley, Cynthia Lytle, Carme Manuel, Paula Martín-Salván, Elena Ortells, Eva Puyuelo-Ureña, Dolores Resano, and Cynthia Stretch.

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