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Sites Unseen – Architecture, Race, and American Literature: America and the Long 19th Century

Autor William A. Gleason
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 aug 2011
Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture, the period not only in which American architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but also in which ideas about architecture became a prominent part of broader conversations about American culture, history, politics, and--although we have not yet understood this clearly--race relations. This rich and copiously illustrated interdisciplinary study explores the ways that American writing between roughly 1850 and 1930 concerned itself, often intensely, with the racial implications of architectural space primarily, but not exclusively, through domestic architecture.
In addition to identifying an archive of provocative primary materials, Sites Unseen draws significantly on important recent scholarship in multiple fields ranging from literature, history, and material culture to architecture, cultural geography, and urban planning. Together the chapters interrogate a variety of expressive American vernacular forms, including the dialect tale, the novel of empire, letters, and pulp stories, along with the plantation cabin, the West Indian cottage, the Latin American plaza, and the "Oriental" parlor. These are some of the overlooked plots and structures that can and should inform a more comprehensive consideration of the literary and cultural meanings of American architecture. Making sense of the relations between architecture, race, and American writing of the long nineteenth century--in their regional, national, and hemispheric contexts--Sites Unseen provides a clearer view not only of this catalytic era but also more broadly of what architectural historian Dell Upton has aptly termed the social experience of the built environment.


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ISBN-13: 9780814732472
ISBN-10: 081473247X
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 25 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: MI – New York University
Seria America and the Long 19th Century


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Explores the ways that American writing between roughly 1850 and 1930 concerned itself, often intensely, with the racial implications of architectural space primarily, but not exclusively, through domestic architecture.

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“Though it suggests something of its bold interdisciplinarity, the title of William A. Gleason’s compelling monograph barely captures the ease and fluidity of his skilful navigation through these broad territories. Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature essentially begins the much-needed work of reconceptualising both well-known American literary texts and lesser-known writing of the “pattern book” era, roughly the 1850s to 1930s, through both a spatial and a racial analytical frame. In weaving together the fields of architectural history and literature, Gleason succeeds, as he intends to, in laying down some very fertile scholarly soil. Sites Unseen addresses both the narrative elements of architecture and, conversely, the use of architectural elements in narrative, yet also provocatively incorporates within this dynamic the added dimension of race.” - Katy Bunning, Journal of American Studies, November 2012