The Country of the Pointed Firs and the Dunnet Landing Tales (1896) (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Sarah Orne Jewett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551118343 ISBN 13: 9781551118345

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2009

Synopsis

This new edition of a beloved American story cycle includes a rich selection of appendices on the work’s literary, critical, and biographical contexts.|A sharply observed, affectionate, and unsentimental portrait of life in a Maine fishing village, The Country of the Pointed Firs is Sarah Orne Jewett’s most enduring work, and commonly regarded as the finest example of American regionalist literature in the nineteenth century. It was originally published in four installments of the Atlantic Monthly in 1896; this Broadview Edition is based on the Atlantic serialization and also includes the four other stories set in Dunnet Landing. The critical introduction situates the text in its historical, cultural, and literary milieu, attending to its place in Jewett’s oeuvre and in her biography. Appendices include earlier “local color” writing by Jewett and others, Jewett’s letters, and contemporary reviews of the novel.

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About the Author

Deborah Carlin is Professor of American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

From the Back Cover

A sharply observed, affectionate, and unsentimental portrait of life in a Maine fishing village, The Country of the Pointed Firs is Sarah Orne Jewett's most enduring work, and commonly regarded as the finest example of American regionalist literature in the nineteenth century. It was originally published in four installments of the Atlantic Monthly in 1896; this Broadview Edition is based on the Atlantic serialization and also includes the four other stories set in Dunnet Landing.

The critical introduction situates the text in its historical, cultural, and literary milieu, attending to its place in Jewett's oeuvre and in her biography. Appendices include earlier "local color" writing by Jewett and others, Jewett's letters, and contemporary reviews of the novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1551118343
• ISBN 13: 9781551118345
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 294