Writing Women and Woman Writing in Nineteenth-Century America

作者：  金莉著

出版社：外语教学与研究出版社,2004

简介：　　本专著试图沿着美国社会发展和时代变迁的轨迹，展示19世纪美国小说的重要组成部分——女性小说——从其鼎盛时期的19世纪50年代至世纪末的嬗变，探讨美国女性作家与作品、美国女性小说与美国小说、美国女性与美国社会之间的关系。 　　前言 　　第一章 导论 　　第二章 社会抗议小说 　　哈里叶特·比彻·斯托(Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896) 　　哈里叶特·雅各布斯(Harriet Jacobs, 1813-?) 　　第三章 家庭小说 　　E.D.E.N. 索恩沃斯(E.D.E.N. Southworth, 1819-1899) 　　苏姗·沃纳(Susan Warner, 1819-1888) 　　范妮·弗恩(Fanny Fern, 1811-1872) 　　奥古斯塔·简·埃文斯·威尔逊(Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, 1835-1900) 　　路易莎·梅·奥尔科特(Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888) 　　第四章 区域小说 　　萨拉·奥恩·朱厄特(Sarah Orne Jewett, 1849-1909) 　　玛丽·埃莉诺·威尔金斯·弗里曼(Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, 1852-1930) 　　第五章 新女性小说 　　夏洛特·帕金斯·吉尔曼(Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860-1935) 　　凯特·肖班(Kate Choping, 1851-1904) 　　十九世纪美国女性小说研究主要参考书目 　　十九世纪美国社会与女性文学大事年表 　　后记　　

A Country doctor /

作者：  Sarah Orne Jewett ; with an introduction by Paula Blanchard.

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简介： 在线阅读本书 Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century. Published in 1884, Jewett’s first novel, A Country Doctor,is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semiautobiographical look at her world. In it, Nan’s struggle to choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, between the confining life of a small town and a self-directed one as a professional, mirrors Jewett’s own conflicts as well as eloquently giving voice to the leading women’s issues of her time. Perhaps even more important, Jewett’s perfect details about wild flowers and seaside wharfs, farm women knitting by the fireside and sailors going upriver to meet the moonlight, convey a realism that has seldom been surpassed and stamp her writing with her signature style. A contemporary and friend of Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Julia Ward Howe, Sarah Orne Jewett is widely recognized as a pathfinder in American literary history, courageously pursuing a road less traveled that led the way for other women to follow.

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简介：The Country of the Pointed Firs is an 1896 novel by Sarah Orne Jewett which is considered by some literary critics to be her finest work. Henry James described it as her "beautiful little quantum of achievement." Because it is loosely structured, many critics view the book not as a novel, but a series of sketches; however, its structure is unified through both setting and theme. The novel can be read as a study of the effects of isolation and hardship experienced by the inhabitants of the decaying fishing villages along the Maine coast.

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简介：In her book Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender, 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. That society, as seen from Jewett's perspective during the late Victorian era, was one in which a competitive, active man dominates a passive, emotional woman. Frequently referring to Jewett's own New England upbringing at the hands of an unusually progressive father, Roman demonstrates 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 roles and relationships. With the details of Jewett's free-spirited life, Roman's book represents a solid work of literary scholarship, which traces a gender-dissolving theme throughout Jewett's writing. Whereas previous critics have focused primarily on her best-known works, including "A White Heron," Deephaven, A Country Doctor, and The Country of the Pointed Firs, Roman encompasses within her own discussion virtually all of the stories found in the nineteen volumes Jewett published during her lifetime. And although much recent criticism has centered around Jewett's strong female characters, Roman is the first to explore in depth Jewett's male characters and married couples. The book progresses through distinct phases that roughly correspond to Jewett's psychological development as a writer. In general, the characters in her early works exhibit one of two modes of behavior. Youngsters, free as Jewett was to explore the natural world of woods and field, glimpse the possibility of escape from the confining standards that society has set, though some experience turbulent and confusing adolescences where those norms have become more pressing, more demanding. At the opposite extreme among these early characters are those who have mindlessly accepted the roles in which they have been trapped since youth--greedy, selfish men, dutiful women who tend emotionally empty houses, young couples unable to communicate either between themselves or with others--in short, characters who are too alienated within their roles to function as whole human beings. On the other hand, Jewett approaches the men and women of her later works with a higher degree of optimism, in that each person is free to live according to the dictates of his or her inherent personality--each character is able to measure life from within rather than from without. This group includes the self-confident men who are not reluctant to present a nurturing side and the warm, giving women who are unafraid of displaying a decided inner strength. As Roman summarizes, "In her writings, Jewett attempts to shift society's focus from a grasping power over people to the personal development of each member of society." Ahead of her time in many ways, Sarah Orne Jewett confronted the Victorian polarized gender system, presaging the modern view that men and women should be encouraged to develop along whatever paths are most comfortable and most natural for them.

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简介：Pretty story by Francis Hopkinson -- Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg, the missing man by William Austin -- Grey champion by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Big bear of Arkansas by T.B. Thorpe -- Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe -- Bartleby the scrivener by Herman Melville -- Tennessee's partner by Bret Harte -- Captain Kidd's money by Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Marjorie Daw by Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Lady or the tiger? by Frank Stockton -- Over on the t'other mounting by Charles Egbert Craddock -- Revolt of mother by Mary Wilkins Freeman -- One of the missing by Ambrose Bierce -- Return of a private by Hamlin Garland -- Real thing by Henry James -- Courting of Sister Wisby by Sarah Orne Jewett -- Open boat by Stephen Crane -- Man that corrupted Hadleyburg by Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- Furnished room by O. Henry -- To build a fire by Jack London -- Strength of God and the teacher by Sherwood Anderson -- Diamond as big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Haircut by Ring Lardner -- Double birthday by Willa Cather -- Spring evening by James T. Farrell -- Masses of men by Erskine Caldwell -- Gilded six-bits by Zora Neale Hurston -- Silent snow, secret snow by Conrad Aiken -- Odor of verbena by William Faulkner -- Daring young man on the flying trapeze by William Saroyan -- Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway -- Tooth for Paul Revere by Stephen Vincent Benet -- Noon wine by Katherine Anne Porter -- Leader of the people by John Steinbeck -- Lily Daw and the three ladies by Eudora Welty -- Fire and cloud by Richard Wright -- Patterns of love by William Maxwell -- Ballad of the sad cafe by Carson McCullers -- Cass Mastern's wedding ring by Robert Penn Warren -- Wedding: Beacon Hill by Jean Stafford -- Rain in the heart by Peter Taylor -- Gunners' Passage by Irwin Shaw -- Lottery by Shirley Jackson -- February 1999: Ylla by Ray Bradbury -- Country husband by John Cheever -- Good man is hard to find by Flannery O'Connor -- Mexican girl by Jack Kerouac --浮喔膏笖 喔佮覆喔｀笣

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简介：Includes works by the following authors: Julian of Norwich/Margery Kempe/Queen Elizabeth I/Mary Sidney Herbert/Amelia Lanier/Anne Bradstreet/Margaret Cavendish/Jane Lead/Katherine Philips/ Mary Rowlandson/Aphra Behn/Lady Mary Chudleigh/Anne Killigrew/Anne Finch/Mary Astell/Lady Mary Wortley Montagu/Charlotte Smith/ Fanny Burney/ Phillis Wheatley/ Mary Wollstonecraft/Maria Edgeworth/ Dorothy Wordsworth/Jane Austen/Rebecca Cox Jackson/Mary Shelley/Sojourner Truth/Elizabeth Barrett Browning/Margaret Fuller/ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell/Harriet Beecher Stowe/Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Charlotte Bronte/ Emily Bronte/Linda Brent/ George Eliot/Florence Nightingale/Elizabeth Drew Stoddard/Frances E. W. Harper/Harriet E. Adams/Emily Dickinson/Christina Rossetti/Rebecca Harding Davis/Louisa May Alcott/Alice Meyness/Alice James/Sarah Orne Jewett/ Kate Chopin/ Mary E. Wilkins Freeman/ Lady Augusta Gregory/Olive Schreiner/ Charlotte Perkins Gilman/ Mary Elizabeth Coleridge/Edith Wharton/ May Sinclair/Charlotte Mew/Henry Handel Richardson/Ellen Glasgow/ Willa Cather/Dorothy Richardson/Amy Lowell/Gertrude Stein/Alice Dunbar-Nelson/Anna Hampstead Branch/Virginia Woolf/Susan Glaspell/ Katharine Susannah Prichard/ Anna Wickham/Elinor Wylie/Esak Dinesen/Anzia Yezierska/ Radclyffe Hall/ H. D.(Hilda

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简介：Includes short stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin, Joseph Conrad, Charles Chesnutt, Anton Chekhov, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Sherwood Anderson, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Anne Porter, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Jorge Luis Borges, John Steinbeck, Issac Bashevis Singer, R.K. Narayan, Eudora Welty, Naguib Mahfouz, John Cheever, Tillie Olsen, Bernard Malamud, Ralph Ellison, Doris Lessing, Grace Paley, Italo Calvino, Nadine Gordimer, James Baldwin, Kobo Abe, Flannery O'Connor, Yukio Mishima, Clarice Lispector, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chinua Achebe, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Alice Munro, John Updike, Elena Poniatowska, Gerald Vizenor, Chen Rong, Bessie Head, Joyce Carol Oates, Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, Amos Oz, Bharati Mukherjee, Bobbie Ann Mason, John Edgar Wideman, Isabel Allende, Sergio Ramirez, James Alan McPherson, Alice Walker, Robert Olen Butler, Tobias Wolff, Tim O'Brien, Ann Beattie, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jamaica Kincaid, Haruki Murakami, Gloria Naylor, Alberto Alvaro Rios, Gary Soto, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, Louise Erdrich, Elizabeth Tallent, Reginald McKnight, and David Leavitt.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Explores literature's social mission at the turn of the century as defined by William Dean Howells and practiced by him and others.   Publisher Summary 2 Explores literature's social mission at the turn of the century as defined by William Dean Howells and practiced by him and others. In a series of influential essays that appeared in Harper's, W. D. Howells argued for literature as a vehicle for social change. Literature could and should, Howells suggested, mediate across divisions of class and region, fostering cross-cultural sympathies that would lead to comprehensive social and ethical reform. Paul R. Petrie explores the legacy of Howells's beliefs as they manifest themselves in Howell's fiction and in the works of three major American writers--Charles W. Chesnutt, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Willa Cather. Each author struggled to adapt Howells's social-ethical agenda for literature to his or her own aesthetic goals and to alternative conceptions of literary purpose. Jewett not only embraced Howells's sense of social mission but also extended it by documenting commonplace cultural realities in a language and vision that was spiritual and transcendent. Chesnutt sought to improve relations between Anglo readers and African Americans, but his work, such as The Conjure Woman, also questions literature's ability to repair those divides. Finally, Petrie shows how Cather, as she shifted from journalism to fiction, freed herself from Howells's influence. Alexander's Bridge(1912) and O Pioneers!(1913) both make reference to social and material realities but only as groundwork for character portrayals that are mythic and heroic. The result of Petrie's exploration is a refreshing reassessment of Howells's legacy and its impact on American literature and social history at the turn of the century.