Reading Houses and Building Books: Andrew Jackson Downing and the Architecture of Popular Antebellum Literature, 1835-1855
by Adam Sweeting
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0874517508
- ISBN 13
- 9780874517507
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
About this Item: University Press of New England, Hanover and London, 1996. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition First printing book is fine with a fine un-priced dust jacket. Book is unmarked and unread " The book lays out new territory, thanks to Sweeting's hard digging, boldness, and eye for underground connections. Treating literar4y works, buildings, gardens, and manners as shape-shifting of each other, he ingeniously plots the aesthetics of gentility in antebellum America". This study of a unique coalescence of literature, architecture, and gardening illuminates the widely held belief that efforts to reform the world began at home, that beautiful and clean houses produced morally beautiful and spiritually clean people.
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- Oshtemo Book Sellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13114
- Title
- Reading Houses and Building Books: Andrew Jackson Downing and the Architecture of Popular Antebellum Literature, 1835-1855
- Author
- Adam Sweeting
- Format/Binding
- Bound in tan cloth over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0874517508
- ISBN 13
- 9780874517507
- Publisher
- University Press Of New England
- Place of Publication
- Hanover,
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- First Edition/ First Printing
- Size
- 8vo
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