Embodiment of a Nation
Human Form in American Places
Published on 1. July 2009
320 pages
978-0-674-04435-7 (ISBN)
Description
From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Thoreau's Cape Cod as "the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the American environment has been represented in terms of the human body. Exploring such instances of embodiment, Tichi exposes the historically varied and often contrary geomorphic expression of a national paradigm.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-04435-7 (9780674044357)
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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.
Content
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction I. Crania Americana 1. Mt. Rushmore: Heads of State and States of Heads 2. Walden Pond: Head Trips II. Frontier Incarnations 3. Pittsburgh at Yellowstone: Old Faithful and the Pulse of Industrial America 4. America's Moon: "A Dream of the Future's Face" III. Bon Aqua 5. Hot Springs: American Hygeia 6. Love Canal: Hygeia's Crisis Notes References Credits Index
