Jewett And Her Contemporaries: Reshaping The Canon [Paperback]

This collection represents an appreciation of Sarah Orne Jewett in every sense of the word. It both grasps the nature, worth, and quality of Jewetts 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 womens 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 Womens Medical Autobiographies, by Judith Wittenberg
6.? Transcendentalism to Ecofeminism: Celia Thaxter and Sarah Orne Jewetts 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 Jewetts Influence on Ethan Frome, by Priscilla Leder

III.? Conflicts: Identity and Ideology

9. Whiteness as Loss in Sarah Orne Jewetts 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 andl£-