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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785007903321

Autore

Tichi Cecelia <1942->

Titolo

Embodiment of a nation [[electronic resource] ] : human form in American places / / Cecelia Tichi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-674-04435-5

Descrizione fisica

xii, 303 p

Disciplina

973

Soggetti

National characteristics, American

Human body - Social aspects - United States - History

Anthropomorphism

Landscapes - United States - Psychological aspects - History

Landscapes - Social aspects - United States - History

Historic sites - United States

United States Intellectual life

United States History, Local

United States Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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 American environment has been 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.