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

• Autore: Tichi Cecelia <1942->
• 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
• 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
• ISBN: 0-674-04435-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785007903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II