Everyone's an Outsider: Architecture,Landscape,and Class in Michigan's Copper Country.
详细信息
- 作者：Scarlett ; Sarah Fayen.
- 学历：Doctor
- 年：2014
- 毕业院校：The University of Wisconsin
- Department：Art History.
- ISBN：9781321444643
- CBH：3669041
- Country：USA
- 语种：English
- FileSize：40847815
- Pages：407
文摘
This dissertation interrogates space,materiality,and mobility in domestic landscapes to explore complex social identities in America between 1870 and 1913. Engaging with interdisciplinary approaches in the spatial humanities,including cultural landscape,material culture,and vernacular architecture studies,this investigation focuses on Michigans far northern Copper Country as a case study for using overlapping social landscapes as a framework for place-based examinations of class and gender identities. Suburban models of domestic development,whose separate spheres came to define middle-class American values,co-existed with and eventually informed changing ideas of company paternalism and corporate welfare in Michigans Copper Country. Beginning in the 1870s,mining companies disposed of unwanted land by selling single-family lots outside of town to successful merchants and white-collar professionals. Examination of the East Houghton house of James Pryor demonstrates ways that an individual family negotiated an elevated social identity by repeatedly overhauling their property to be both an industrial managers house,looking down on workers from a fashionable hilltop residence,and a suburban country cottage. Fifteen years later,the Quincy Mining Company,one of the regions most powerful,established an exclusive neighborhood in which businessmen and eventually company managers used space and taste to differentiate themselves from places and people associated with labor. A few houses in this neighborhood of East Hancock allow us to compare the mobility of a live-in servant with that of her mistress,revealing different rhythms and opportunities in their performances of identity. A final chapter examines the sense of place constructed through taste in architecture and interior furnishings to interrogate the spatial and material nature of class formation at the end of the period. Complicating existing histories of the Copper Country,this dissertation looks beyond company-built landscapes and inculcates the regions separate white-collar neighborhoods in the social rifts that culminated in the Miners Strike of 1913--14. More broadly,this dissertation complicates the relationship between domesticity and working landscapes in ways that can have implications for studying industrial communities and suburbanization around the country.