The Country of the Pointed Firs

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Broadview Press, Nov 13, 2009 - Fiction - 294 pages

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.

 

Contents

Acknowledgements
7
Introduction
9
A Brief Chronology
33
A Note on the Text
37
The Country of the Pointed Firs
39
The Dunnet Landing Stories
143
Before The Country o fthe Pointed Firs Precursors and Influences
215
Local Color Literature NineteenthCentury Formulations and Definitions
234
Selected Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett
264
Reviews of The Country of the Pointed Firs
271
Profiles of Sarah Orne Jewett
276
Select Bibliography
287
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Deborah Carlin is Professor of American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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