Blanket / Kara Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Kara, author.

Series:

Object lessons.

Object lessons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blankets--History.

Blankets.

Blankets--Social aspects.

Blankets--Psychological aspects.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages).

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Biography/History:

Kara Thompson is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, College of William and Mary, USA. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly, and the Atlantic.

Summary:

"Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We are born into blankets. They keep us alive and they cover us in death. We pull and tug on blankets to see us through the night or an illness. They shield us in mourning and witness our most intimate pleasures. Curious, fearless, vulnerable, and critical, Blanket interweaves cultural critique with memoir to cast new light on a ubiquitous object. Kara Thompson reveals blankets everywhere--film, art, geology, disasters, battlefields, resistance, home--and transforms an ordinary thing into a vibrant and vital carrier of stories and secrets, an object of inheritance and belonging, a companion to uncover. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface : Convolute

Unfold 1 : Witness

Unfold 2 : Folds

Unfold 3 : Extraction

Unfold 4 : Security

Unfold 5 : Cover

Unfold 6 : Carriers

Unfold 7.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-155) and index.

ISBN:

9781501396274

1501396277

9781628922660

1628922664

9781628922677

1628922672

OCLC:

1201426621