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Jewett and her contemporaries : reshaping the canon / edited by Karen L. Kilcup and Thomas S. Edwards. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909--Criticism and interpretation.
- Jewett, Sarah Orne.
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909--Contemporaries.
- Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Canon (Literature).
- Maine--In literature.
- Maine.
- American literature--History and criticism--Women authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 294 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-2279-7
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