| Description |
1 online resource (160 p.) |
| Series |
Oxford Studies in American Literary History Series |
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Oxford Studies in American Literary History Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Country-House Poem_ A Precedent -- Traditions of the House Poem_ Colonial, Global, Vernacular -- From the Country-House to the Kitchenette -- Structure of the Book -- 1. Gwendolyn Brooks and Housing as a Civil Right -- Bronzeville Interiors -- An Epic at Home -- Housing Plots -- Disintegrating Compositions: The Ballad and the Couplet -- Missing "In the Mecca" -- Conclusion -- 2. Unmaking a Home: Adrienne Rich and the Suburbs |
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Confined Spaces: Bradstreet and Dickinson as Precursors -- Other People's Houses -- In the Kitchen, At the Window, In the Bedroom_ Views from the Interior -- The House Poem as Poetic Sequence -- Conclusion -- 3. An Immaterial World: James Merrill, Finance, and the Renovation of the House Poem -- No Statelier Mansions: Sandover as Country-House Poem -- Entire Stories: "An Urban Convalescence," "The Broken Home," and "Days of 1964" -- Chores and Chambers -- Conclusion -- 4. The American Poetic Subprime: Contemporary Poetry, Race, and Genre -- Inventing the Duplex |
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Race, Debt, and Real Estate in the Twenty-First Century -- The House Poem in the Subprime Era -- How to Build an American Home -- Over the Threshold -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book explores the politics of American housing from the perspective of poets. Hunter follows the emergence of an ""American house poem,"" which offers uniquely vivid expressions of the expansion of homeownership as a core tenet of American prosperity and democracy |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192668981 |
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0192668986 |
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