New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs Hardback (The American Novel) - Hardcover

Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521415748 ISBN 13: 9780521415743

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

This collection of essays on Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, builds on feminist literary scholarship that affirms the 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.

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Críticas:

"...the five essays in this book...represent the very latest and best in feminist literary criticism." Key Reporter

"Well-written and containing useful summaries of recent criticism, this work is valuable for anyone engaged with Jewett, feminist criticism, or regional writing. It should be the basis for more detailed examinations of 19th- and 20th-century visions of community. Recommended for all libraries." M. L. Robertson, Choice

Contraportada:

The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American literature. Each volume begins with a substantial introduction by a distinguished authority on the text, giving details of the novel's composition, publication history, 2nd contemporary reception, as well as a survey of the major critical trends and readings from first publication to the present. This overview is followed by a group of new essays, each specially commissioned from a leading scholar in the field, which together constitute a forum of interpretative methods and prominent contemporary ideas on the text. There are also helpful guides to further reading. Specifically designed for undergraduates, the series will be a powerful resource for anyone engaged in the critical analysis of major American novels and other important texts. Feminist literary criticism has fundamentally revised our understanding of Sarah Orne Jewett and The Country of the Pointed Firs. What Jewett's place in American literature will be at the end of the twentieth century remains to be seen, however, and the essays in this volume offer a radically revised view of her significance. Building on feminist analyses of Jewett's role in the female literary culture of her day, the distinctive formal qualities of her fiction, and the importance of her subject matter, the essays also historicize Jewett's work in the frames of reference that have emerged as important in recent critical study. Most strikingly, they reveal how deeply racialized and nationalist are the categories through which Jewett - as a participant in the culture industry and a highly successful writer negotiatinggendered institutions - constructs her local solidarities. The currently received ways of understanding Jewett - as a regionalist and as a woman writer - are unified in an account of her involvement in the process through which a national culture was constructed at the turn of the century. Less celebratory than feminist criticism of Jewett has been so far, the essays in this volume are nevertheless deeply respectful of her craft and seriousness. As a group they present the most historically informed and critically appreciative readings of The Country of the Pointed Firs published to date.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521415748
• ISBN 13: 9780521415743
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136