<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"This collection represents an <i>appreciation</i> 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</p><p>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. <p/>Contents<br>"Confronting Time and Change": Jewett, Region, and Nation, by Karen L. Kilcup and Thomas Edwards</p><p>I. Contexts: Readers and Reading<br>1. Sex, Class, and Category Crisis: Jewett and the Postmodern Reader, by Marjorie Pryse<br>2. "In Search of Local Color": Context, Controversy, and <i>The Country of the Pointed Firs</i>, by Donna Campbell<br>3. "Links of Similitude": The Narrator of <i>The Country of the Pointed Firs</i> and Author-Reader Relations at the End of the 19th Century, by Melissa Homestead<br>4. "To Make Them Acquainted with One Another": Jewett, Howells, and the Dual Aesthetic of <i>Deephaven</i>, by Paul Petrie</p><p>II. Contemporaries: Jewett and the Writing World<br>5. Challenge and Compliance: Textual Strategies in <i>A Country Doctor</i> and 19th-Century American Women's Medical Autobiographies, by Judith Wittenberg<br>6. Transcendentalism to Ecofeminism: Celia Thaxter and Sarah Orne Jewett's Island Views Revisited, by Marcia Littenberg<br>7. The Professor and the Pointed Firs: Cather, Jewett, and the Problem of Editing, by Ann Romines<br>8. Visions of New England: The Anxiety of Jewett's Influence on <i>Ethan Frome</i>, by Priscilla Leder</p><p>III. Conflicts: Identity and Ideology</p><p>9. Whiteness as Loss in Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Foreigner," by Mitzi Schrag<br>10. "How Clearly the Gradations of Society Were Defined": Negotiating Class in Sarah Orne Jewett, by Alison Easton<br>11. Purity and Danger: Gender and Class in Jewett's "The Best China Saucer," by Sarah Way Sherman</p><p>IV. Connections: Jewett's Time and Place<br>12. "A Brave Happiness": Rites and Celebrations in Jewett's Ordered Past, by Graham Frater<br>13. We Do Not All Go Two by Two; Or, Abandoning the Ark, by Patti Capel Swartz<br>14. Jewett's Maine: A Journey Back, by Carol Schachinger</p><p> </p><p>Karen L. Kilcup is associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her recent publications include <i>Robert Frost and Feminine Literary Tradition, Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology, Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Critical Reader</i>, and <i>Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition</i>.</p><p>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.</p>
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