New Essays on the Country of the Pointed Firs

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-521-41574-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 312 g

Reihe: The American Novel

This is a collection of new essays on one of the most important works of New England local colour fiction, The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett. It builds on feminist literary scholarship that affirms the importance and 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 broad interest to the fields of American literary studies, feminist cultural criticism, and American studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Howard, June

Elliot, Emory

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Sarah Orne Jewett and the traffic in words June Howard; 2. Country's Portrayal of community and the exclusion of difference Sandra Abelson Zagarell; 3. Gender and American realism in The Country of the Pointed Firs Michael Davitt Bell; 4. Material culture, empire, and Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, Elizabeth Ammons; 5. Regionalism and nationalism in Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs Susan Gillman.