Jewett and Her Contemporaries: Reshaping the Canon Contributor(s): Kilcup, Karen L. (Editor), Edwards, Thomas S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0813025346 ISBN-13: 9780813025346 Publisher: University Press of Florida OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1999 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
Dewey: 813.4 |
LCCN: 09940599 |
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.9" W x 8.86" (1.08 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "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 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 II. Contemporaries: Jewett and the Writing World III. Conflicts: Identity and Ideology 9. Whiteness as Loss in Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Foreigner," by Mitzi Schrag IV. Connections: Jewett's Time and Place
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. |