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Abandoned New England : landscape in the works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop
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Abandoned New England : landscape in the works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop / Priscilla Paton.
ISBN
1584653132 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, c2003.
Physical Description
xiii, 282 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 22, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-267) and index.
Contents
Introduction : lost prospects
Rustic sophistication : lionizing Winslow Homer, defending Robert Frost
Power and impotence : the black figure and the prey in Winslow Homer's Outdoors
The hick on the hillside, the woman at the window : Frost's rustics
Gothic loneliness : the different cases of Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth
The landscape of desire : Elizabeth Bishop and the feminine earth
The vernacular ruin and the ghost of self-reliance
Epilogue.
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