Contents

• Sex, class, and "category crisis": reading Jewett’s transitivity / Marjorie Pryse
• "In search of local color": context, controversy, and the Country of the pointed firs / Donna M. Campbell
• "Links of similitude": the narrator of the Country of the pointed firs and author -reader relations at the end of the nineteenth century / Melissa Homestead
• "To make them acquainted with one another": Jewett, Howells, and the dual aesthetic of Deephaven / Paul R. Petrie
• Challenge and compliance: textual strategies in a Country doctor and nineteenth- century American women’s medical autobiographies / Judith Bryant Wittenberg
• From transcendentalism to ecofeminism : Celia Thaxter and Sarah Orne Jewett’s island views revisited / Marcia B. Littenberg
• The professor and the Pointed firs: Cather, Jewett, and problems of editing / Ann Romines
• Visions of New England: the anxiety of Jewett’s influence on Ethan Frome / Priscilla Leder
• "Whiteness" as loss in Sarah Orne Jewett’s "The foreigner" / Mitzi Schrag
• "How clearly the gradations of society were defined": negotiating class in Sarah Orne Jewett / Alison Easton
• Party out of bounds: gender and class in Jewett’s "the Best china saucer" / Sarah Way Sherman
• "A brave happiness": rites and celebrations in Jewett’s ordered past / Graham Frater
• We do not all go two by two; or, abandoning the ark / Patti Capel Swartz
• Sarah Orne Jewett’s Maine: a journey back / Carol Schachinger