Robert Blair St. George

This is a great starting point for studies on the poetics of space, place, and non-representation in colonial New England. The emphasis on eighteenth-century New England ascribed meanings (culture?) has largely been subsumed into John Wood Sweet's study (gender, race, body orientation in socio-cultural space). For the period between 1740-1800, Benjamin Carp's monograph is now considered the definitive interpretation of landscapes and built environments...a WMQ reviewer called for a more show more expansive scope, which suggests possible avenues for a "reinterpretation" of both the "public sphere" and the Revolution. Society and culture, rather than "embodiment" hehe. Still, the essential source for pre-eighteenth century poetics! show less

Essays of value for my purposes:
Village and Community in Early Colonial New England by Joseph S.Wood - but uses jargon
*Furniture and the Domestic Environment in Wethersfield, Connecticut 1639 - 1800 by Kevin M. Sweeney - uses probate inventories over time
Artifacts of Regional Consciousness in the Connecticut River Valley, 1700 - 1780 by Robert Blair St. George - more about elites house details, etc
Seating the Meetinghouse in Early Massachusetts by Robert J. Dinkin
Tea - drinking in Eighteenth show more Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage by Rodris Roth
*For Honour and Civl Worship to Any Worthy PErson: Burial, Baptism, and Community on the Massachusetts Near Frontier 1730 - 1790 by John L. Brooke - excellent re Baptists
The Rural Cemetery Movement: Urban Travail and the Appeal of Nature by Thomas Bender
*Culture and Cultivation: Agriculture and Society in Thoreau's Concord by Robert A. Gross - uses tax lists re how land use,assets change over time
*Domestic Architecture as an Index to Social History: The Romantic Revival and the Cult of Domesticity in America 1840 -1870 by Clifford E. Clark, Jr. show less