The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett is one of the most important works of New England local color fiction. This collection of essays builds on feminist literary scholarship that affirms the value of Jewett's work, but goes beyond previously published studies by offering an analysis of how race, nationalism, and the literary marketplace shape her narrative. The volume constitutes a major rethinking of Jewett's contribution to American literature, and will be of interest to the fields of American literary studies, feminist cultural criticism, and American studies.
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"...the five essays in this book...represent the very latest and best in feminist literary criticism." Key Reporter
"Well-written and containing useful summaries of recent criticism, this work is valuable for anyone engaged with Jewett, feminist criticism, or regional writing. It should be the basis for more detailed examinations of 19th- and 20th-century visions of community. Recommended for all libraries." M. L. Robertson, Choice
"Well-written and containing useful summaries of recent criticism, this work is valuable for anyone engaged with Jewett, feminist criticism, or regional writing. It should be the basis for more detailed examinations of 19th- and 20th-century visions of community. Recommended for all libraries." M. L. Robertson, Choice
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Offering an analysis of how race, nationalism, and the literary marketplace shape its narrative, this collection of new essays on one of the most important works of New England fiction goes beyond previously published studies, building on feminist literary scholarship that affirms the value of Jewett's work.
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A LOOK of delight came into the faces of those who recognized the plain, dear old figure [of Mrs. Blacket] beside me; one revelation after another was made of the constant interest and intercourse that had linked [Green Island] and [the] scattered farms into a golden chain of love and dependence, Jewett's narrator remarks early in the Bowden reunion section of The Country of the Pointed Firs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dunnet Landing, New England, Sarah Orne Jewett, New York, United States, Captain Littlepage, Elijah Tilley, Elizabeth Ammons, Marjorie Pryse, Almira Todd, Atlantic Monthly, Frank Norris, Conflicting Stories, Warner Berthoff, Willa Cather, Joanna Todd, Josephine Donovan, The Story of the Normans, William Dean Howells, American Persephone, Annie Fields, Critical Essays, Question of Minor Literature, Sandra Zagarell, South Berwick New!
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A LOOK of delight came into the faces of those who recognized the plain, dear old figure [of Mrs. Blacket] beside me; one revelation after another was made of the constant interest and intercourse that had linked [Green Island] and [the] scattered farms into a golden chain of love and dependence, Jewett's narrator remarks early in the Bowden reunion section of The Country of the Pointed Firs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dunnet Landing, New England, Sarah Orne Jewett, New York, United States, Captain Littlepage, Elijah Tilley, Elizabeth Ammons, Marjorie Pryse, Almira Todd, Atlantic Monthly, Frank Norris, Conflicting Stories, Warner Berthoff, Willa Cather, Joanna Todd, Josephine Donovan, The Story of the Normans, William Dean Howells, American Persephone, Annie Fields, Critical Essays, Question of Minor Literature, Sandra Zagarell, South Berwick New!
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- The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (Signet Classics) by Sarah Orne Jewett on 50 pages
- Sarah Orne Jewett (Modern Literature Series) by Josephine Donovan on 10 pages
- Not Under Forty by Willa Cather on 7 pages
- A White Heron and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sarah Orne Jewett on 6 pages
- Sarah Orne Jewett: Novels & Stories : Deephaven a Country Doctor; The Country of the Pointed Firs; Stories & Sketches (Library of America College Editions) by Sarah Orne Jewett on 6 pages
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- Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950 (Rethinking the Americas) by Francesca Sawaya in Back Matter
- Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism (Women in Culture and Society) by Jennifer L. Fleissner in Back Matter
- The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea by Michael Davitt Bell in Front Matter
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