Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-442) and index.
Contents:
Index. Acknowledgments -- Prologue : Self, house, and suburb -- Introduction : Built spaces and identity -- 7. Eighteenth-century England : the genesis of the Bourgeois dwelling -- 1. Locating the self in space -- 2. Villa suburbana, terra suburbana -- 3. The apparatus of selfhood -- pt. 2. Nineteenth-century America : republican homes in Arcadian suburbs -- 4. Republican pastoral : toward a bourgeois Arcadia -- 5. Suburbanizing the self -- pt. 3. Twentieth-century America : the dream house ideal and the suburban landscape -- 6. Nationalizing the dream -- 7. Analyzing the dream -- Conclusion : Reframing suburbia -- Coda : Looking ahead -- Notes -- Permissions -- Index.
Summary:
Argues that the ideal surburban house is rooted in notions of privacy, property, and selfhood that are the foundation of identity in America.
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