@article{1479679,
      recid = {1479679},
      author = {Gleason, William A., },
      title = {Sites Unseen : Architecture, Race, and American Literature  /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and  architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century  American culture, the period not only in which American  architecture came of age professionally in the U.S. but  also in which ideas about architecture became a prominent  part of broader conversations about American culture,  history, politics, and-although we have not yet understood  this clearly-race relations. This rich and copiously  illustrated interdisciplinary study explores the ways that  American writing between roughly 1850 and 1930 concerned  itself, often intensely, with the racial implications of  architectural space primarily, but not exclusively, through  domestic architecture.In addition to identifying an archive  of provocative primary materials, Sites Unseen draws  significantly on important recent scholarship in multiple  fields ranging from literature, history, and material  culture to architecture, cultural geography, and urban  planning. Together the chapters interrogate a variety of  expressive American vernacular forms, including the dialect  tale, the novel of empire, letters, and pulp stories, along  with the plantation cabin, the West Indian cottage, the  Latin American plaza, and the "Oriental" parlor. These are  some of the overlooked plots and structures that can and  should inform a more comprehensive consideration of the  literary and cultural meanings of American architecture.  Making sense of the relations between architecture, race,  and American writing of the long nineteenth century-in  their regional, national, and hemispheric contexts-Sites  Unseen provides a clearer view not only of this catalytic  era but also more broadly of what architectural historian  Dell Upton has aptly termed the social experience of the  built environment.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479679},
}