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A marsh island / Sarah Orne Jewett ; edited and with an introduction by Don James McLaughlin

Author
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
Published
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Copyright Date
©2023
Physical Description
200 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators
McLaughlin, Don James

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"Towards the end of her life, Sarah Orne Jewett made a surprising disclosure. Instead of the critically lauded The Country of the Pointed Firs, Jewett declared her "best story" to be A Marsh Island (1885), a little-known novel. Written a few years into Jewett's decades-long companionship with Annie Fields, A Marsh Island echoes Jewett's determination to split time between her family home in Maine and Fields's place on Charles Street in Boston. The novel envisions the saltmarsh as a figure for dynamic selfhood: the ever-shifting boundaries between land and sea a model for valuing both individuality and a porous openness to the gifts of others. Just as Jewett brought attention to the unique beauty and value of the Great Marsh region, editor Don James McLaughlin reveals a convergence of regionalism and sexuality in Jewett's work in his introduction. A Marsh Island reminds us that the meaning of "companionship" itself is enriched when we acknowledge its indebtedness to the environment"--
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9781512824261 (paperback)
1512824267 (paperback)
9781512824278 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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