Abandoned New England
Landscape in the Works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop
Priscilla Paton
University of New Hampshire Press
University Press of New England
Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xv
A Note on Texts xvii
1. Introduction: Lost Prospects 1
2. Rustic Sophistication: Lionizing Winslow Homer, Defending Robert Frost 28
3. Power and Impotence: The Black Figure and the Prey in Winslow Homer's Outdoors 58
4. The Hick on the Hillside, The Woman at the Window: Frost's Rustics 96
5. Gothic Loneliness: The Different Cases of Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth 133
6. The Landscape of Desire: Elizabeth Bishop and the Feminine Earth 169
7. The Vernaculer Ruin and the Ghost of Self-Reliance 208
8. Epilogue 236
Notes 241
Index 269
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