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At Home in the City
Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930
Betsy Klimasmith
University of New Hampshire Press
University Press of New England
Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations • Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Architectural Determinism and the Industrial City in The Blithedale Romance and Ruth Hall
• The City’s Drawing-Room: Spatial Practice in The Bostonians and Central Park
• The Tenement Home: Pushing the City’s Limits
• The Apartment as Utopia: Reimagining the City, Reconstructing the Home
• From Artifact to Investment: Hotel Homes, the Economics of Luxury, and The Custom of the Country
• The Paradox of Intimacy: Mobility, Sociology, and the Function of Home in Quicksand • Epilogue
• Notes • Bibliography
• Index
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