Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858 (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies)

Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858 (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies)

In this interdisciplinary study, Faherty argues that throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Americans conceptualized their still unsettled political and social states through metaphors of home building. During this period, a pervasive concern with the design and furnishing of houses helped writers to manage previous encounters with settlements, both native and European, and to imagine and remodel a new national ideal. By aligning the period’s architectural concerns (regis

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