Embodiment of a Nation
Human Form in American Places
Published on 27. August 2001
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-0-674-00494-8 (ISBN)
Description
From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod as "the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the U.S. environment has been recurrently represented in terms of the human body. Exploring such instances of embodiment, Cecelia Tichi exposes the historically varied and often contrary geomorphic expression of a national paradigm. Environmental history as cultural studies, her book plumbs the deep and peculiarly American bond between nationalism, the environment, and the human body.
Reviews / Votes
"In this fascinating analysis of American geographical and topographical imagery, Cecelia Tichi demonstrates the many ways in which our history, as well as our cultural values, are embedded in our monuments and historical sites. Using interdisciplinary perspectives from literature, history, and visual and material cultural studies, Tichi shows us how to read our national mythology in our continually shifting interpretation of our national sites and places." - Wendy Martin, author of An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
33 halftones, 7 line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-00494-8 (9780674004948)
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Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
07/2009
Harvard University Press
€33.49
Available for download
Person
Cecelia Tichi is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and the author of New World, New Earth and Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America, as well as several novels.