Main entry:

McEntyre, Marilyn Chandler, 1949-

Title & Author:

Dwelling in the text : houses in American fiction / Marilyn R. Chandler.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1991]
©1991

Description:

vii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-333) and index.
Walden : a manifesto in wood and stone -- "The Fall of the House of Usher" : and who can tell the teller from the tale? -- The house of the seven gables : secrets of the heart -- The portrait of a lady : more stately mansions -- The awakening and "The Yellow Wallpaper" : ironies of independence -- The age of innocence : tribal rites in the urban village -- The professor's house : escape to the interior -- The great Gatsby : awakening from the American dream -- Absalom, absalom! : a house divided -- Postwar suburban fiction : American dream as nightmare -- Housekeeping and Beloved : when women come home.
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Summary:

Illuminates the complex analogies between house and psyche, house and family, house and social environment, and house and text. This book traces a historical path from settlement to unsettledness in American culture and explores the rituals in between: of building, decorating, inhabiting, and abandoning houses.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520073630 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520073630 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

American fiction History and criticism.
Setting (Literature)
Dwellings in literature.
Domestic fiction, American History and criticism.
Home in literature.
Roman américain Histoire et critique.
Espace et temps (Littérature)
Habitations dans la littérature.
Roman familial américain Histoire et critique.
Foyer dans la littérature.
setting (surroundings)
American fiction
Domestic fiction, American
Foyer Dans la littérature.
Roman américain Thèmes, motifs.
Habitations Dans la littérature.
Cadre du récit littéraire.
Littérature américaine Thèmes, motifs.
United States.
English fiction Special subjects Accommodation

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 72884
Call No.: ID:92-B1418
Status: Available