Embodiment of a Nation - Human Form in American Places

Klappentext discussions of gender and nature! her book also demonstrates the intellectual power of wedding environmental studies to the social history of the human body. Zusammenfassung From Harriet Beecher Stowe’s image of the Mississippi's “bosom” to Thoreau’s Cape Cod as “the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts,” the American environment has been represented in terms of the human body. Exploring such instances of embodiment, Tichi exposes the historically varied and often contrary geomorphic expression of a national paradigm.

Product details

• Authors: Cecelia Tichi
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2004
• EAN: 9780674013612
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01361-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous