Home on the Horizon by Sally Bayley
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 ?lm, 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 con?icted sites of the American motel and hotel.
Sally Bayley teaches Victorian, Modern, and American literature at Jesus College, Oxford. She has published essays on the poet Sylvia Plath and her book, co-edited with Kathleen Connors, Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath and the Art of the Visual will be published by Oxford Univerity Press in October 2007. William May is a lecturer at Bath Spa University. He specialises in British twentieth-century literature, and has published articles on Stevie Smith and Simon Armitage. He is currently working on a book-length study of Stevie Smith.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906165154 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906165157 |
| Title | Home on the Horizon |
| Author | Sally Bayley |
| Series | Peter Lang Ltd |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Peter Lang Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-11-10 |
| Number of pages | 244 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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