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Author:

Gleason, William A.

Title:

Sites unseen : architecture, race, and American literature / William A. Gleason.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Architecture in literature.
Race in literature.
Architecture and literature.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Race, writing, architecture: American patterns -- Cottage desire: The bondwoman's narrative and the politics of antebellum space -- Piazza tales: Architecture, race, and memory in Charles Chesnutt's conjure stories -- Imperial bungalow: structures of empire in Richard Harding Davis and Olga Beatriz Torres -- Keyless rooms: Frank Lloyd Wright and Charlie Chan -- Coda: Black cabin, white house.

Series:

America and the long 19th century

ISBN:

0814732488 (e-book)
9780814732489 (e-book)
081473247X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780814732472 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0814732461 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780814732465 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)697261041

LCCN:

2011007837

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)