Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858

246 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to corners. SIGNED and inscribed by author, otherwise text unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 pounds. Category: Art::Architecture & Design; Signed by Author. ISBN: 1584656557. Inventory No: 030115. Hardcover

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In this interdisciplinary study, Faherty argues that throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Americans conceptualized their still unsettled political and social states through metaphors of home building. During this period, a pervasive concern with the design and furnishing of houses helped writers to manage previous encounters with settlements, both native and European, and to imagine and remodel a new national ideal. By aligning the period's architectural concerns (registered in both the interior and exterior of houses) with concurrent debates about the need to create a national identity in the wake of the American Revolution, Faherty registers how representations of the house were a crucial locus for debating broadly shared concerns about the anxieties of nation building.Topics include Abraham Lincoln's use of architectural motifs in his 1858 senatorial campaign (the house divided against itself speech); the arguments about domestic identity embodied in the designs of Mount Vernon and Monticello; the lingering import of colonial and indigenous settlements on post-revolutionary culture as registered in the work of William Bartram and Lewis and Clark; Char

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ISBN: 1584656557

ISBN-13: 9781584656555

Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press

Year: 2007

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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