OurCommonDwelling explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s. When the New England Transcendentalists spiritualized nat

One of the most troubling aspects of the politics of homelessness, Leonard C. Feldman contends, is the reduction of the homeless to what Hannah Arendt calls "th

Surveys the types of homes found in twenty American small towns, and discusses house plans, features, and structural forms

Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the e

This volume analyses the representation of domestic spaces in landmark texts of American literature, focusing on the relationship between houses and subjectivit