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Stamped "Review Copy" ffep. Hard cover, 8vo in black paper-covered boards, silver titles, original unclipped dust jacket, 246pp. with index. First edition. CONDITION: Fine, in Fine d/j. Stamped "Review Copy" to ffep. in red ink. Sarah Orne Jewett,(1849-1909) the South Berwick, Maine author best known for the novels "Deephaven" ( first book edition, 1877) and "Country of the Pointed Firs" (1896), has her entire body of work considered in this work of feminist literary criticism. " Margaret Roman argues that one theme colors almost every short story and novel by the turn-of-the century American author: each person, regardless of sex, must break free of the restrictive, polar opposite norms of behavior traditionally assigned to men and women by a patriarchal society...Frequently referring to Jewett's own New England upbringing at the hands of of an unusually progressive father, Roman demonstrated how the writer, through her personal quest for freedom and through the various characters she created, strove to eliminate the necessity for rigid and narrowly defined male-female relationships." (from the blurb). Biographical details of Jewett's relationships with some of her male mentors, John Greenleaf Whittier and Theophilus Parsons, are discussed, as well as the nature of those relationships with some of her closest female partners, such as Sarah Wyman Whitman and Annie Fields. An interesting overview of the literary and artistic community of the Seacoast area from Boston to South Berwick, and the understanding of developing feminism in the mid to late nineteenth century New England.
Ref: LITC 9423
$35.00