Constance Fenimore Woolson: Collected Stories (LOA #327)
A landmark of literary recovery: the first major edition of an overlooked genius who in her lifetime was considered 19th-century America's greatest woman writer In the eyes of her contemporaries, Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) ranked with George Eliot as one of the two greatest women writers of the English language. She wrote fiction of remarkable intellectual power that outsold those of her male contemporaries Henry James and Willian Dean Howells. James enshrined memories of his long, complicated friendship with Woolson in The Beast in the Jungle and The Wings of the Dove, and more recently Colm Tobin treated the relationship in his…
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Weitere Autoren: Rioux, Anne Boyd
- ISBN: 978-1-59853-650-8
- EAN: 9781598536508
- Produktnummer: 31340737
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 750 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B13.2 cm x D4.0 cm 646 g
- Gewicht: 646
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Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) is the author of six novels: The Old Stone House (1873), Anne (1882), For the Major (1883), East Angels (1886), Jupiter Lights (1889), and Horace Chase (1894). In her lifetime, two collections of her stories appeared: Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches (1875) and Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches (1880). Two more collections were published after her death, The Front Yard and Other Italian Stories (1895) and Dorothy and Other Italian Stories (1896).Anne Boyd Rioux is a Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, President of the Constance Fenimore Woolson Society, and the author of three books: Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America (2004), Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist (2016), and Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Sill Matters (2018).
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