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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Sarah Orne Jewett"”.
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Sarah Orne Jewett : Transcendence in Nature
Sarah Orne Jewett wrote about people and things “just as they are” (Silverthorne 35) . Her father had given her this advice and, in a way, she made it her mission in life to acquaint people with each other. Despite her simple language and seemingly simple characters her work is full of wisdom and …
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Selected Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett: A Critical Edition With Commentary
Sarah Orne Jewett once wrote, "I wish some body would invent private telegraphs so we could talk with people at a distance. But perhaps this is a foolish wish for our thoughts would wander frightfully" (Letter 15). This attitude may seem surprising from an author who was such a prolific letter …
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The universality of the sounds and silences in the works of Sarah Orne Jewett
… this thesis to offer evidence that the works of Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) have universal application and appeal. Specifically, the thesis explores Jewett's uses of silences, non-verbal communication (gesture), and symbolic sounds in nature as her means of creating in the reader a sense of …
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Private Voices Teaching Public Values in the Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Sarah Orne Jewett
… the thesis maintains that Stowe, Freeman, and Jewett utilized literary realism to publicize alternative theologies and progressive communities.
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Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900
… of Metta Fuller Victor, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett, and E.D.E.N. Southworth mobilized sentimental style and sympathetic affect to challenge the medical trend of treating female sentiment as a sickness. At the level of narrative, this challenge took the form of deviating from the …
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American Women Writers, Visual Vocabularies, and the Lives of Literary Regionalism
… of their own. The writers in my dissertation--Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, and Ann Petry--ground literary regionalism in the politics of writing places, but draw also from the arts of life writing circulating in the late nineteenth-century literary marketplace: through slave narratives, …
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The other side of the window : an essay on structural iconography in English and American fiction
… and figurative, in works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Henry James. The fifth chapter investigates further the theme of visual penetration, as it appears in the work of modern women writers. I propose that the experience of being enclosed, converted to a literary subject, …
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Connecting to the Feminine and to the Inner Self in Sarah Orne Jewett's <em>The Country of the Pointed Firs</em>.
<p>In Dunnet Landing, Jewett creates a feminine world that is characterized by its depth and its moral and emotional significance. There is a foundation in the real world of human feeling, and while there is much grief and sorrow in this community, there are also possibilities for happiness. The …