Title The American house poem, 1945-2021 / Walt Hunter

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource Series Oxford studies in American literary history Oxford studies in American literary history. 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 -- 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 -- 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 volume 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 Also issued in print: 2023 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Audience Specialized Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 13, 2023) Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism Dwellings in literature. American poetry Dwellings in literature Literature: history & criticism. Literature. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191946530 0191946532 9780192668974 0192668978 0192668986 9780192668981

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