In "Sarah Orne Jewett: New England Pastoralist" I have tried to demonstrate that an old tradition may be used to understand modern fiction, that the pastoral elements in Jewett must be reckoned with if one is to appreciate fully her best work, and that the pastoral elements account for her high reputation as a local colorist. William Empson's instructive discussion of the genre in Some Versions of Pastoral was useful, but this paper depends more on the traditional view of pastoral, as expressed by W. W. Greg and L. K. Chambers, which defines the genre in terms of country life. Chapter II examines Miss Jewett's rural background among the fisher-farmer folk she knew as a child and also examines her reading habits. Chapter III analyzes Deephav...
This dissertation tells a relatively recent story about an ancient literary idea: the pastoral. I fo...
Although many scholars of American literature overlook Regionalist fiction as a limited field, Sarah...
Robert Greene, as a professional author and dramatist, was keenly attuned to audience expectations a...
Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) has long been central to literary critica...
Thomas Hardy, Ellen Glasgow, and William Faulkner used the pastoral mode to show the contradictions,...
Critical studies on the importance of place and landscape in Midwestern literature are not uncommon,...
Survivals of Pastoral is available in KU ScholarWorks at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6517
Although Sarah Orne Jewett's active career extended over thirty-four years, studies of her work have...
“The Pastoral Field: Local Ecologies in Early Modern Literature” excavates the ways in which pastora...
Review of: Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture. Burns, Sa...
The tides have changed. Mountains have shifted. But, Sarah Orne Jewett’s zealous love for country re...
The 2003 reissue of the Penguin Classics edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South reproduces o...
The critical reception of Sarah Orne Jewett has oscillated dramatically over the last century. Conte...
The narrator of The Country of the Pointed Firs is an elusive figure. A narrator who is also a chara...
In an attempt to explain the discrepancy between the intellectual and imaginative elements in George...
This dissertation tells a relatively recent story about an ancient literary idea: the pastoral. I fo...
Although many scholars of American literature overlook Regionalist fiction as a limited field, Sarah...
Robert Greene, as a professional author and dramatist, was keenly attuned to audience expectations a...
Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) has long been central to literary critica...
Thomas Hardy, Ellen Glasgow, and William Faulkner used the pastoral mode to show the contradictions,...
Critical studies on the importance of place and landscape in Midwestern literature are not uncommon,...
Survivals of Pastoral is available in KU ScholarWorks at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6517
Although Sarah Orne Jewett's active career extended over thirty-four years, studies of her work have...
“The Pastoral Field: Local Ecologies in Early Modern Literature” excavates the ways in which pastora...
Review of: Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture. Burns, Sa...
The tides have changed. Mountains have shifted. But, Sarah Orne Jewett’s zealous love for country re...
The 2003 reissue of the Penguin Classics edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South reproduces o...
The critical reception of Sarah Orne Jewett has oscillated dramatically over the last century. Conte...
The narrator of The Country of the Pointed Firs is an elusive figure. A narrator who is also a chara...
In an attempt to explain the discrepancy between the intellectual and imaginative elements in George...
This dissertation tells a relatively recent story about an ancient literary idea: the pastoral. I fo...
Although many scholars of American literature overlook Regionalist fiction as a limited field, Sarah...
Robert Greene, as a professional author and dramatist, was keenly attuned to audience expectations a...