Embodiment of a nation : human form in American places / Cecelia Tichi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tichi, Cecelia, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, American.

Human body--Social aspects--United States--History.

Human body.

Anthropomorphism.

Landscapes--United States--Psychological aspects--History.

Landscapes.

Landscapes--Social aspects--United States--History.

Historic sites--United States.

Historic sites.

United States--Intellectual life.

United States.

United States--History, Local.

United States--Environmental conditions.

Physical Description:

xii, 303 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Henry David 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, Cecelia Tichi exposes the historically varied and often contrary geomorphic expression of a national paradigm.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I Crania Americana

1 Mt. Rushmore: Heads of State and States of Heads

2 Walden Pond: Head Trips

II Frontier Incarnations

3 Pittsburgh at Yellowstone: Old Faithful and the Pulse of Industrial America

4 America’s Moon: “A Dream of the Future’s Face”

III Bon Aqua

5 Hot Springs: American Hygeia

6 Love Canal: Hygeia’s Crisis

Notes

References

Credits

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-296) and index.

ISBN:

9780674044357

0674044355

OCLC:

923117214