Resumen de The attraction of the American author's house: architecture, guidebooks, and display, 1853-1904
This essay looks at the most popular nineteenth-century guides to American authors' houses, alongside the actual architecture and exhibition of two of the most popular attractions, Washington Irving's Sunnyside and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wayside. It demostrates the significance of an architecture of a contiguous inside and outside to both guidebooks to author's houses as well as exhibition of the same buildings. This characteristic of the nineteenth-century American domestic architecture, it is argued, allowed for guidebooks to present author' houses textually and pictorially as environments situated in landscapes and these same works then imagined the opening of authors' houses as exhibition sites before their official transformation into museum sites at the turn of the century.
