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



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Autore: Tichi Cecelia <1942-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Embodiment of a nation [[electronic resource] ] : human form in American places / / Cecelia Tichi Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2001
Descrizione fisica: xii, 303 p
Disciplina: 973
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: United States Intellectual life
United States History, Local
United States Environmental conditions
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Embodiment of a nation  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-04435-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910459888303321
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