Suburban plots : men at home in nineteenth-century American print culture / Maura D'Amore.

"In the middle of nineteenth century, as Americans contended with rapid industrial and technological change, readers relied on periodicals and books for information about their changing world. Within this print culture, a host of writers, editors, architects, and reformers urged men to commute...

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Main Author: D'Amore, Maura, 1978- (Author)
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Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.
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505 0 |a Introduction: colonizing the countryside, plotting the suburbs -- Thoreau's unreal estate: playing house at Walden Pond -- "To build, as trees grow, season by season": Henry Ward Beecher's domestic organicism -- "A man's sense of domesticity": Donald Grant Mitchell's home relish -- Advancement and association, nostalgia and exclusion: Hawthorne and the suburban romance -- A networked wilderness of print: textual suburbanization in Hillis's Home journal -- Speculative manhood: living fiction in the country-book genre -- Afterword: suburban nostalgia, then and now. 
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