New Essays on The Country of the Pointed FirsJune Howard Cambridge University Press, 1994-05-27 - 122 psl. "Feminist literary criticism has fundamentally revised our understanding of Sarah Orne Jewett and The Country of the Pointed Firs. What Jewett's place in American literature will be at the end of the twentieth century remains to be seen, however, and the essays in this volume offer a radically revised view of her significance. Building on feminist analyses of Jewett's role in the female literary culture of her day, the distinctive formal qualities of her fiction, and the importance of her subject matter, the essays also historicize Jewett's work in the frames of reference that have emerged as important in recent critical study. Most strikingly, they reveal how deeply racialized and nationalist are the categories through which Jewett - as a participant in the culture industry and a highly successful writer negotiating gendered institutions - constructs her local solidarities. The currently received ways of understanding Jewett - as a regionalist and as a woman writer - are unified in an account of her involvement in the process through which a national culture was constructed at the turn of the century. Less celebratory than feminist criticism of Jewett has been so far, the essays in this volume are nevertheless deeply respectful of her craft and seriousness. As a group they present the most historically informed and critically appreciative readings of The Country of the Pointed Firs published to date."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Introduction Sarah Orne Jewett and the Traffic in Words | 1 |
Countrys Portrayal of Community and the Exclusion of Difference | 39 |
Gender and American Realism in The Country of the Pointed Firs | 61 |
Material Culture Empire and Jewetts Country of the Pointed Firs | 81 |
Regionalism and Nationalism in Jewetts Country of the Pointed Firs | 101 |
Notes on Contributors | 119 |
Selected Bibliography | 121 |
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