Jewett and Her Contemporaries
Reshaping the
Canon
Edited
by Karen L. Kilcup and Thomas S. Edwards
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Essays about identity
and difference, tradition and transformation, region and
nation add an energetic and diverse set of voices to
current discussions about Sarah Orne Jewett, 19th-century
American women’s writing, and the reshaping of the
literary canon.
Contents:
"Confronting Time and Change": Jewett, Region,
and Nation, by Karen L. Kilcup and Thomas Edwards
I. Contexts: Readers and Reading
1. Sex, Class, and Category Crisis: Jewett and the
Postmodern Reader, by Marjorie Pryse
2. "In Search of Local Color": Context,
Controversy, and The Country of the Pointed Firs,,
by Donna Campbell
3. "Links of Similitude": The Narrator of The
Country of the Pointed Firs and Author-Reader
Relations at the End of the 19th Century, by Melissa
Homestead
4. "To Make Them Acquainted with One Another":
Jewett, Howells, and the Dual Aesthetic of Deephaven,
by Paul Petrie
II. Contemporaries: Jewett and the Writing World
5. Challenge and Compliance: Textual Strategies in A
Country Doctor and 19th-Century American
Women’s Medical Autobiographies, by Judith
Wittenberg
6. Transcendentalism to Ecofeminism: Celia Thaxter and
Sarah Orne Jewett’s Island Views Revisited, by
Marcia Littenberg
7. The Professor and the Pointed Firs: Cather, Jewett,
and the Problem of Editing, by Ann Romines
8. Visions of New England: The Anxiety of Jewett’s
Influence on Ethan Frome, by Priscilla Leder
III. Conflicts: Identity and Ideology
9. Whiteness as Loss in Sarah Orne Jewett’s
"The Foreigner," by Mitzi Schrag
10. "How Clearly the Gradations of Society Were
Defined": Negotiating Class in Sarah Orne Jewett, by
Alison Easton
11. Purity and Danger: Gender and Class in Jewett’s
"The Best China Saucer," by Sarah Way Sherman
IV. Connections: Jewett’s Time and Place
12. "A Brave Happiness": Rites and Celebrations
in Jewett’s Ordered Past, by Graham Frater
13. We Do Not All Go Two by Two; Or, Abandoning the Ark,
by Patti Capel Swartz
14. Jewett’s Maine: A Journey Back, by Carol
Schachinger
Karen L. Kilcup is associate professor of English at the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her recent
publications include Robert Frost and Feminine
Literary Tradition, Nineteenth-Century American Women
Writers: An Anthology, Nineteenth-Century American Women
Writers: A Critical Reader, and Soft Canons:
American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition.
Thomas S. Edwards, associate academic dean at Castleton
State College in Vermont, has published in the areas of
19th- and 20th-century social and literary history,
popular culture, and literary translation.
1999. 304pp. 6 X 9.
ISBN 0-8130-1703-3 Cloth, $55.00
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"The critical
essays in this volume offer challenging reassessments of Sarah Orne
Jewett's oeuvre, which in the end testify to its continuing
appeal and importance for scholars of American literary and cultural
studies. As a bonus, Karen Kilcup and Thomas Edwards also provide an
excellent introduction to the landscape of past and present Jewett
criticism."—Louis A. Renza, Dartmouth College
"This collection represents an appreciation
of Sarah Orne Jewett in every sense of the word. It both
grasps the nature, worth, and quality of Jewett’s
oeuvre and judges it with heightened perception and
candor."—Mary Lowe-Evans, University of
West Florida
"Jewett and
Her Contemporaries gathers an impressive range of essays that
advance our understanding of Jewett's work in its historical context
and draw us deeper into the author's evolving significance within
contemporary critical debate. In an exemplary introduction, Professors
Kilcup and Edwards provide a thorough and incisive account of the
history of Jewett criticism and specify in detail how these newly
gathered essays revise old and current critical assumptions.
Uncommonly well-conceived and well-organized, [this book] is a major
addition to the field."— Joseph Church, Binghamton
University, State University of New York
"This
collection represents an appreciation of Sarah Orne Jewett in every
sense of the word. It both grasps the nature, worth, and quality of
Jewett’s oeuvre and judges it with heightened perception and
candor."—Mary Lowe-Evans, University of West Florida
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