Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry
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Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry

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Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry

About this book

In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden, Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political transformations of the past century.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Pastoral Ideology and the Pragmatic Response
  9. 2 Tramp Culture and the Cult of Pan: Robert Frost’s Pastoral of Class Mobility
  10. 3 “The Truth About Us”: Pastoral, Pragmatism, and William Carlos Williams’s Paterson
  11. 4 “Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat!”: Wallace Stevens’s Figurations of Masculinity
  12. 5 “The Mooring of Starting Out”: John Ashbery’s Pastoral Origins
  13. Conclusion: Late Twentieth-Century Pastoral: Gertrude Stein, Lyn Hejinian, Lisa Robertson, and the Continuity of a Mode
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index