Contents

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