LEADER 04691nam 2200733 450 001 9910465082803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61376-311-5 035 $a(CKB)2560000000305228 035 $a(EBL)4533203 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001266349 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11830550 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001266349 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11250419 035 $a(PQKB)11250675 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4533203 035 $a(OCoLC)896786451 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33349 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4533203 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11214671 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000305228 100 $a20160613h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSuburban plots $emen at home in nineteenth-century American print culture /$fMaura D'Amore 210 1$aAmherst, [Massachusetts] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (220 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in Print Culture and the History of the Book 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-62534-094-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: colonizing the countryside, plotting the suburbs -- Thoreau's unreal estate: playing house at Walden Pond -- "To build, as trees grow, season by season": Henry Ward Beecher's domestic organicism -- "A man's sense of domesticity": Donald Grant Mitchell's home relish -- Advancement and association, nostalgia and exclusion: Hawthorne and the suburban romance -- A networked wilderness of print: textual suburbanization in Hillis's Home journal -- Speculative manhood: living fiction in the country-book genre -- Afterword: suburban nostalgia, then and now. 330 $a"In the middle of nineteenth century, as Americans contended with rapid industrial and technological change, readers relied on periodicals and books for information about their changing world. Within this print culture, a host of writers, editors, architects, and reformers urged men to commute to and from their jobs in the city, which was commonly associated with overcrowding, disease, and expense. Through a range of materials, from pattern books to novels and a variety of periodicals, men were told of the restorative effects on body and soul of the natural environment, found in the emerging suburbs outside cities such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. They were assured that the promise of an ideal home, despite its association with women's work, could help to motivate them to engage in the labor and commute that took them away from it each day. In Suburban Plots, Maura D'Amore explores how Henry David Thoreau, Henry Ward Beecher, Donald Grant Mitchell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and others utilized the pen to plot opportunities for a new sort of male agency grounded, literarily and spatially, in a suburbanized domestic landscape. D'Amore uncovers surprising narratives that do not fit easily into standard critical accounts of midcentury home life. Taking men out of work spaces and locating them in the domestic sphere, these writers were involved in a complex process of portraying men struggling to fulfill fantasies outside of their professional lives, in newly emerging communities. These representations established the groundwork for popular conceptions of suburban domestic life that remain today" --$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aStudies in print culture and the history of the book. 606 $aSuburbs$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSuburban life$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMen$xBooks and reading$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMen in literature 606 $aSuburbs in literature 606 $aSuburban life in literature 606 $aBooks and reading$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSuburbs$xHistory 615 0$aSuburban life$xHistory 615 0$aMen$xBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMen in literature. 615 0$aSuburbs in literature. 615 0$aSuburban life in literature. 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 676 $a307.74097309/034 700 $aD'Amore$b Maura$f1978-$0861396 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465082803321 996 $aSuburban plots$91922445 997 $aUNINA