In a series of sketches, regionalist writers such as Alice Cary, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, and Sui Sin Far critique the approach to regional subjects characteristic of local color and create a countertradition of American writing whose narrator serve as cultural interpreters for persons often considered "out of place" by urban readers. Reclaiming the ground of "close" readings for texts that have been insufficiently read, "Writing Out of Place presents regionalism as a model for narrative connection between texts and readers and as a rich source of unconventional and counterhegemonic...
In a series of sketches, regionalist writers such as Alice Cary, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, and Sui Sin Far critique the approach to regional subj...
"Fetterley s questions are often so crucial, her observations repeatedly so acute, that they force us to ask how we avoided them in the past." Women s Studies International Quarterly
..". thoughtful, informed, and well written." Choice
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"Fetterley s questions are often so crucial, her observations repeatedly so acute, that they force us to ask how we avoided them in the past." Wome...
"This valuable collection... should shift the ground of discourse on mid-19th-century American literature." --Publishers Weekly
This unique collection has recovered for us the work of sixteen women who wrote during the years when American writers were developing their distinctive styles and voices.
"This valuable collection... should shift the ground of discourse on mid-19th-century American literature." --Publishers Weekly
