Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places

by Cecelia Tichi

Book Overview

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 U.S. environment has been recurrently 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. Environmental history as cultural studies, her book plumbs the deep and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674013611
• ISBN13: 9780674013612
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.9"