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OverviewIn the middle of the nineteenth century, urban families began to inhabit apartment houses, boarding houses, tenements, and hotels. These multi-unit residences began to define American city landscapes, a shift that had enormous interpersonal and cultural repercussions. These new forms of housing altered the ways in which Americans inhabited and understood urban space. Helping to create among city dwellers a distinctively modern subjectivity were a host of writers (among them, Hawthorne, James, and Nella Larsen) who experimented in prose with the possibilities and dangers of urban space. Reformers, planners, and engineers simultaneously helped to shape urban sensibilities by experimenting with architectural form in the city's physical landscape, often hoping to shape a particular type of citizen with their designs. Imaginatively juxtaposing literary criticism with a history of the built environment, Klimasmith examines urban domestic fiction alongside architectural, sociological, and photographic texts of the period, pairing important American novels with developments in urban domestic architecture. Arguing that nineteenth and early-twentieth-century residential spaces were always more fluid and dynamic than traditional scholarship holds, her study allows us to witness the unfolding of modernity and to view the modernist subject at its very inception. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Betsy KlimasmithPublisher: University of New Hampshire Press Imprint: University of New Hampshire Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.463kg ISBN: 9781584654971ISBN 10: 158465497 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 04 December 2005 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsBetsy Klimasmith's At Home in the City is a genuine pleasure to read. The narrative seamlessly moves from close readings of urban novels to discussions about architectural designs of tenements and boarding houses as well as of New York's Central Park. It analyzes the interiority of urban domestic fiction then literally and figuratively goes outside, to extra-literary sources. It is as if the very structure of the book confirms its central observation: the boundedness of the rural home gave way to an urban domesticity, where home is understood in terms of permeability, interconnectedness, and the fluidity of private and public spaces. --Journal of American History Beautifully written and illustrated...this book is a fascinating read from a promising young scholar. Anyone interested in urban studies, American historical fiction, and architecture will be delighted. --Choice Klimasmith brings new insights into the lived experiences of urban dwellers, challenging both contemporary accounts as well as more recent scholarship. --H-Urban Choice H-Urban Studies in American Naturalism Journal of American History Klimasmith successfully guides readers through a literary and artistic terrain that enables us all to become more At Home in the City Studies in American Naturalism Klimasmith brings new insights into the lived experiences of urban dwellers, challenging both contemporary accounts as well as more recent scholarship. H-Urban Betsy Klimasmith's At Home in the City is a genuine pleasure to read. The narrative seamlessly moves from close readings of urban novels to discussions about architectural designs of tenements and boarding houses as well as of New York's Central Park. It analyzes the interiority of urban domestic fiction then literally and figuratively goes outside, to extra-literary sources. It is as if the very structure of the book confirms its central observation: the boundedness of the rural home gave way to an urban domesticity, where home is understood in terms of permeability, interconnectedness, and the fluidity of private and public spaces. Journal of American History Beautifully written and illustrated...this book is a fascinating read from a promising young scholar. Anyone interested in urban studies, American historical fiction, and architecture will be delighted. Choice Klimasmith brings new insights into the lived experiences of urban dwellers, challenging both contemporary accounts as well as more recent scholarship. --H-Urban Beautifully written and illustrated...this book is a fascinating read from a promising young scholar. Anyone interested in urban studies, American historical fiction, and architecture will be delighted. --Choice H-Urban Journal of American History Choice Studies in American Naturalism Beautifully written and illustrated...this book is a fascinating read from a promising young scholar. Anyone interested in urban studies, American historical fiction, and architecture will be delighted. Choice Klimasmith successfully guides readers through a literary and artistic terrain that enables us all to become more At Home in the City Studies in American Naturalism Betsy Klimasmith's At Home in the City is a genuine pleasure to read. The narrative seamlessly moves from close readings of urban novels to discussions about architectural designs of tenements and boarding houses as well as of New York's Central Park. It analyzes the interiority of urban domestic fiction then literally and figuratively goes outside, to extra-literary sources. It is as if the very structure of the book confirms its central observation: the boundedness of the rural home gave way to an urban domesticity, where home is understood in terms of permeability, interconnectedness, and the fluidity of private and public spaces. Journal of American History Klimasmith brings new insights into the lived experiences of urban dwellers, challenging both contemporary accounts as well as more recent scholarship. H-Urban Betsy Klimasmith's At Home in the City is a genuine pleasure to read. The narrative seamlessly moves from close readings of urban novels to discussions about architectural designs of tenements and boarding houses as well as of New York's Central Park. It analyzes the interiority of urban domestic fiction then literally and figuratively goes outside, to extra-literary sources. It is as if the very structure of the book confirms its central observation: the boundedness of the rural home gave way to an urban domesticity, where home is understood in terms of permeability, interconnectedness, and the fluidity of private and public spaces. <i><b>Journal of American History</b></i> Choice H-Urban Journal of American History Studies in American Naturalism Beautifully written and illustrated...this book is a fascinating read from a promising young scholar. Anyone interested in urban studies, American historical fiction, and architecture will be delighted. --Choice Klimasmith brings new insights into the lived experiences of urban dwellers, challenging both contemporary accounts as well as more recent scholarship. --H-Urban Betsy Klimasmith's At Home in the City is a genuine pleasure to read. The narrative seamlessly moves from close readings of urban novels to discussions about architectural designs of tenements and boarding houses as well as of New York's Central Park. It analyzes the interiority of urban domestic fiction then literally and figuratively goes outside, to extra-literary sources. It is as if the very structure of the book confirms its central observation: the boundedness of the rural home gave way to an urban domesticity, where home is understood in terms of permeability, interconnectedness, and the fluidity of private and public spaces. Journal of American History Klimasmith successfully guides readers through a literary and artistic terrain that enables us all to become more At Home in the City Studies in American Naturalism Beautifully written and illustrated...this book is a fascinating read from a promising young scholar. Anyone interested in urban studies, American historical fiction, and architecture will be delighted. Choice Klimasmith brings new insights into the lived experiences of urban dwellers, challenging both contemporary accounts as well as more recent scholarship. H-Urban Author InformationBETSY KLIMASMITH is Assistant Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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