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Title Jewett and her contemporaries : reshaping the Canon / edited by Karen L. Kilcup and Thomas S. Edwards
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (x, 294 pages)
Contents Sex, class, and "category crisis": reading Jewett's transitivity / Marjorie Pryse -- "In search of local color": context, controversy, and the Country of the pointed firs / Donna M. Campbell -- "Links of similitude": the narrator of the Country of the pointed firs and author-reader relations at the end of the nineteenth century / Melissa Homestead -- "To make them acquainted with one another": Jewett, Howells, and the dual aesthetic of Deephaven / Paul R. Petrie -- Challenge and compliance: textual strategies in a Country doctor and nineteenth-century American women's medical autobiographies / Judith Bryant Wittenberg -- From transcendentalism to ecofeminism: Celia Thaxter and Sarah Orne Jewett's island views revisited / Marcia B. Littenberg -- The professor and the Pointed firs: Cather, Jewett, and problems of editing / Ann Romines -- Visions of New England: the anxiety of Jewett's influence on Ethan Frome / Priscilla Leder -- "Whiteness" as loss in Sarah Orne Jewett's "The foreigner" / Mitzi Schrag -- "How clearly the gradations of society were defined": negotiating class in Sarah Orne Jewett / Alison Easton -- Party out of bounds: gender and class in Jewett's "the Best china saucer" / Sarah Way Sherman -- "A brave happiness": rites and celebrations in Jewett's ordered past / Graham Frater -- We do not all go two by two; or, abandoning the ark / Patti Capel Swartz -- Sarah Orne Jewett's Maine: a journey back / Carol Schachinger
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909 -- Criticism and interpretation
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909 -- Contemporaries
SUBJECT Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909 fast
Subject Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Canon (Literature)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature -- Women authors
Canon (Literature)
Contemporaries
Literature
Women and literature
American Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
SUBJECT Maine -- In literature
Subject Maine
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Kilcup, Karen L
Edwards, Thomas S
LC no. 99040599
ISBN 0813022797
9780813022796
9780813017037
0813017033