Dwelling in the Text Houses in American Fiction 1st Edition by Marilyn Chandler 0520347633 9780520347632

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ISBN 10: 0520347633 

ISBN 13: 9780520347632

Author: Marilyn R. Chandler

What is a house? And what can architecture tell us about individual psychology, national character and aspiration? The house holds a central place in American mythology, as Marilyn Chandler demonstrates in a series of “house tours” through American novels, beginning with Thoreau’s Walden and ending with Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.

Chandler illuminates the complex analogies between house and psyche, house and family, house and social environment, and house and text. She traces a historical path from settlement to unsettledness in American culture and explores all the rituals in between: of building, decorating, inhabiting, and abandoning houses. She notes the ambivalence between our desire for rootedness and our romanticization of wide open spaces, relating these poles to the tension between materialism and spirituality in our national character.

At a time when housing has become a problem of unprecedented dimensions in America, this look at the place of houses and homes in the American imagination reveals some sources of the attitudes, assumptions, and expectations that underlie the designing and building of the homes we buy, sell, and dream about.

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Table of contents:

1 WALDEN A Manifesto in Wood and Stone

2 “THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER” And Who Can Tell the Teller from the Tale?

3 THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES Secrets of the Heart

4 THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY More Stately Mansions

5 THE AWAKENING AND “THE YELLOW WALLPAPER” Ironies of Independence

6 THE AGE OF INNOCENCE Tribal Rites in the Urban Village

7 THE PROFESSOR’S HOUSE Escape to the Interior

8 THE GREAT GATSBY Awakening from the American Dream

9 ABSALOM, ABSALOM! A House Divided

10 POSTWAR SUBURBAN FICTION American Dream as Nightmare

11 HOUSEKEEPING AND BELOVED When Women Come Home

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