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Sites Unseen

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Description for Sites Unseen Paperback. Examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJC; AMX; DSBF; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 470.

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.
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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
America and the Long 19th Century
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814732472
SKU
V9780814732472
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About William A. Gleason
William A.Gleason is Professor and Chair of English at Princeton University, where he is affiliated with the Princeton Environmental Institute and the interdisciplinary programs in American Studies, African American Studies, Environmental Studies, and Urban Studies.

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[A] fascinating book.
T.Bonner Jr.
Choice
[The] book promises to invigorate critical conversations in the interdisciplinary study of literature and architecture.
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Like the work of Dell Upton,Sites Unseenintertwines the study of vernacular architecture and social history; it brings an altogether original perspective to the subject of the imprint of ... Read more

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