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x, 294 p. ; 24 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 -- 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 -- "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. |
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Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909 -- Contemporaries.
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Maine -- In literature.
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Canon (Literature)
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| Added Author |
Kilcup, Karen L.
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Edwards, Thomas S.
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| ISBN |
0813017033 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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