A Country Doctor
A Country Doctor

Author: Sarah Orne Jewett

Publisher: Graphic Arts Books

Published: 2021-05-21

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1513284843

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A brilliant and ambitious woman is eager to establish her career as a doctor but is forced to choose between her occupation and married life. This timely tale presents an internal conflict facing women in the nineteenth century and beyond. Nan is a bright young woman who grows up under the tutelage of the widowed physician, Dr. Leslie. She became interested in medicine at an early age and decides to pursue it as an adult. Unfortunately, her desire to start a career goes against the social conventions of the day. Women are expected to prioritize marriage and children over any profession. Yet, Nan struggles to desert her goals to appease others. It’s a trying dilemma that pits her against her family, friends and local residents. A Country Doctor is a semiautobiographical story influenced by the author’s personal path to independence. The novel explores the many limitations women encounter when attempting to establish a career. It’s a forward-thinking tale and source of encouragement for those seeking professional growth. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of A Country Doctor is both modern and readable.

Deephaven
Deephaven

Author: Sarah Orne Jewett

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-08-03

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 3385552133

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Cultures of Letters
Cultures of Letters

Author: Richard H. Brodhead

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780226075266

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Richard H. Brodhead uses a great variety of historical sources, many of them considered here for the first time, to reconstruct the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of letters, the culture of mass-produced cheap reading, the militantly hierarchical high culture of the post-Civil War decades, and the literary culture of post-emancipation black education. Moving across a range of writers familiar and unfamiliar, and relating groups of writers often considered in artificial isolation, Brodhead describes how these socially structured worlds of writing shaped the terms of literary practice for the authors who inhabited them.

The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett
The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett

Author: Sarah Orne Jewett

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780809320394

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A collection of eight short stories about Irish immigrants in America by a New England writer. An introduction discusses Jewett's understanding of the Irish psyche compared to the disdain for the Irish found in the work of her contemporaries, and looks at her work in the context of contemporary multicultural concerns. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Cather Studies, Volume 10
Cather Studies, Volume 10

Author: Cather Cather Studies

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2015-08-01

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0803277245

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Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century explores, with textual specificity and historical alertness, the question of how the cultures of the nineteenth century--the cultures that shaped Willa Cather's childhood, animated her education, supplied her artistic models, generated her inordinate ambitions, and gave embodiment to many of her deeply held values--are addressed in her fiction. In two related sets of essays, seven contributors track within Cather's life or writing the particular cultural formations, emotions, and conflicts of value she absorbed from the atmosphere of her distinct historical moment; their ten colleagues offer a compelling set of case studies that articulate the manifold ways that Cather learned from, built upon, or resisted models provided by particular nineteenth-century writers, works, or artistic genres. Taken together with its Cather Studies predecessor, Willa Cather and Modern Cultures, this volume reveals Cather as explorer and interpreter, sufferer and master of the transition from a Victorian to a Modernist America.

Writers on Writing
Writers on Writing

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Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-05

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780805070859

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Collects inspirational essays celebrating the art of writing, including contributions from Russell Banks, Saul Bellow, and E.L. Doctorow.