TY - BOOK ID - 146304958 TI - Home on the horizon : America's search for space, from Emily Dickinson to Bob Dylan PY - 2010 SN - 9781906165154 1906165157 PB - Witney, Oxfordshire : Peter Lang, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Home in literature. KW - Home in popular culture. KW - Personal space in literature. KW - Personal space. KW - Littérature américaine KW - Foyer KW - Espace personnel KW - History and criticism. KW - 19e siècle KW - 20e siècle KW - dans la littérature KW - Dans la littérature KW - Histoire et critique KW - Littérature américaine KW - 19e siècle KW - 20e siècle KW - dans la littérature KW - Dans la littérature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:146304958 AB - In this study of space and place, Sally Bayley examines the meaning of 'home' in American literature and culture. Moving from the nineteenth-century homestead of Emily Dickinson to the present-day reality of Bob Dylan, Bayley investigates the relationship of the domestic frontier to the wide-open spaces of the American outdoors. In contemporary America, she argues, the experience of home is increasingly isolated, leading to unsettling moments of domestic fallout. At the centre of the book is the exposed and often shifting domain of the domestic threshold: Emily Dickinson's doorstep, Edward Hopper's doors and windows, and Harper Lee's front porch. Bayley tracks these historically fragile territories through contemporary literature and film, including Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men, Lars Von Trier's Dogville, and Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford - works that explore local, domestic territories as emblems of nation. The culturally potent sites of the American home - the hearth, porch, backyard, front lawn, bathroom, and basement - are positioned in relation to the more conflicted sites of the American motel and hotel. ER -