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Writing out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture
Judith Fetterley
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Description for Writing out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture
Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 544.
In Writing out of Place, Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse explore a countertradition of nineteenth-century writing previously ignored by American literary history that challenged the definition of nation and literature that emerged after the Civil War. Regionalist writers such as Alice Cary, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Sui Sin Far, and Mary Austin present narrators who serve as cultural interpreters for persons often considered out of place by urban readers. Critiquing the approaches to regional subjects characteristic of local color, this book gives contemporary readers a vantage point from which to approach ... Read more
In Writing out of Place, Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse explore a countertradition of nineteenth-century writing previously ignored by American literary history that challenged the definition of nation and literature that emerged after the Civil War. Regionalist writers such as Alice Cary, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Sui Sin Far, and Mary Austin present narrators who serve as cultural interpreters for persons often considered out of place by urban readers. Critiquing the approaches to regional subjects characteristic of local color, this book gives contemporary readers a vantage point from which to approach ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
544g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252072581
SKU
V9780252072581
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About Judith Fetterley
Judith Fetterley is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English and women's studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. The author of Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction and numerous scholarly articles, she is also the editor of Provisions: A Reader from Nineteenth-Century American Women.Marjorie Pryse is a professor of English and women's studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. ... Read more
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