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Author | : Constance Fenimore Woolson |
Publisher | : Library of America |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 2020-02-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1598536516 |
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A landmark of literary recovery: the first major edition of an overlooked genius who in her lifetime was considered 19th-century America's greatest woman writer In the eyes of her contemporaries, Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) ranked with George Eliot as one of the two greatest women writers of the English language. She wrote fiction of remarkable intellectual power that outsold those of her male contemporaries Henry James and Willian Dean Howells. James enshrined memories of his long, complicated friendship with Woolson in The Beast in the Jungle and The Wings of the Dove, and more recently Colm Tobin treated the relationship in his novel The Master. But Woolson's close association with James, and her likely suicide in Venice, have tended to overshadow her own literary accomplishments, pigeonholing her as a martyr to the male literary establishment. This volume, the most comprehensive gathering of Woolson's stories to date, represents the culmination of decades of recovery work done by scholars, and puts the focus back on the work, where it belongs. Set variously in the Great Lakes region, the post-Civil War South, and Europe, Woolson's short stories often concern outsiders of one kind or another--prophets and misfits living in remote landscapes, uneducated coal miners, impoverished spinsters, neglected nuns, a haunted caretaker of the dead, destitute southerners, and female artists driven to extreme behavior as they seek the admiration or approval of established (male) critics or writers. Woolson's minute realism captures both the social texture of her time and the inner emotional lives of these overlooked and marginalized characters. Most of all her writings startle us with their simmering intensity, their sensual descriptions of the environment, and refusal to smooth out the ambiguities and tensions that inevitably result from human efforts to communicate and connect. Her fiction is deeply human, resonating with a power across the centuries that makes them remarkably modern for today's readers.
Author | : Constance Fenimore Woolson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781409928874 |
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Contents include: Miss Grief by Constance Fenimore Woolson, Love In Old Cloathes by H. C. Bunner, Two Buckets In A Well by N. P. Willis, Friend Barton's Concern by Mary Hallock Foote, An Inspired Lobbyist by J. W. De Forest and Lost In The Fog by Noah Brooks.
Author | : Los Angeles Public Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1901 |
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Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : Library of America Edith Whart |
Total Pages | : 1160 |
Release | : 1990-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Divides American history into nine time periods stressing the contributions of various individuals to the history of each period.
Author | : Constance Fenimore Woolson |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-02-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393352013 |
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To celebrate her forthcoming biography of Constance Fenimore Woolson, Anne Boyd Rioux has selected the best of this classic writer’s stories. Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894) was one of the few nineteenth-century women writers considered the equal of her male peers. Harper & Brothers was so enamored of her work that the firm agreed to publish whatever she could write. In this gathering, Rioux has chosen fiction over the course of Woolson’s life, including “In Sloane Street,” never published since it first appeared in Harper’s Bazaar. Woolson’s stories travel from the rural Midwest to the deep South and then across the Atlantic to Italy and England. Her strong characters and indelible settings provide continuity throughout this collection as do her concerns with passion, creativity, imagination, and the demands of society. Whether portraying the keeper of a Union soldiers’ cemetery in the defeated South, a woman writer whose genius goes unrecognized, or the ex-pat denizens of Florence, Woolson’s deft characterization and subtlety create a broad landscape of Americans and their ways no matter where they lived.
Author | : Elaine Showalter |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 2010-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400034426 |
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An unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to the present. In a narrative of immense scope and fascination, here are more than 250 female writers, including the famous—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O’Connor, and Toni Morrison, among others—and the little known, from the early American bestselling novelist Catherine Sedgwick to the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell. Showalter integrates women’s contributions into our nation’s literary heritage with brilliance and flair, making the case for the unfairly overlooked and putting the overrated firmly in their place.
Author | : Fred Lewis Pattee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : E. Cobham Brewer |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2019-09-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3734093228 |
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Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
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Total Pages | : 1464 |
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