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The Irish stories of Sarah Orne Jewett

Author: Sarah Orne Jewett; Jack Morgan; Louis A Renza
Publisher: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In their introduction, editors Jack Morgan and Louis A. Renza point out that in these stories Jewett displayed a remarkable empathy for the Irish. Undoing the "Paddy" stereotype favored in nineteenth-century Yankee discourse, Jewett exhibited an understanding of the immigrant psyche unheard of among her fellow writers - including Emerson and Thoreau, both of whom wrote disdainfully of the Irish. Morgan and Renza  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Fiction
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Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.
Irish stories of Sarah Orne Jewett.
Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 1996
(OCoLC)605708466
Named Person: Sarah Orne Jewett
Material Type: Fiction, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sarah Orne Jewett; Jack Morgan; Louis A Renza
ISBN: 0809320398 9780809320394
OCLC Number: 34475664
Description: liii, 149 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The luck of the Bogans --
A little captive maid --
Between mass and vespers --
The gray mills of Farley --
Where's Nora? --
Bold words at the bridge --
A landlocked sailor --
Elleneen.
Responsibility: edited and with an introduction by Jack Morgan and Louis A. Renza.
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In their introduction, editors Jack Morgan and Louis A. Renza point out that in these stories Jewett displayed a remarkable empathy for the Irish. Undoing the "Paddy" stereotype favored in nineteenth-century Yankee discourse, Jewett exhibited an understanding of the immigrant psyche unheard of among her fellow writers - including Emerson and Thoreau, both of whom wrote disdainfully of the Irish. Morgan and Renza further discuss the stories in the context of contemporary multicultural and ethnic concerns, showing that Jewett's Irish stories demonstrate a renewal - a redefining, questioning, and expanding of cultural boundaries within concentrated American communities, her own New England area in particular. As such, the editors contend, the stories constitute important documents in the history of a country still engaged with the multi-ethnic as well as the multi-individual paradox of E pluribus unum.

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