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Fiction of the Home Place: Jewett, Cather, Glasgow, Porter, Welty, and Naylor by Helen Fiddyment Levy This panorama of a distinctly American literary world details a persistent pattern of plot and characterization in the work of a significant group of women writers. Starting with the nineteenth-century domestic novel, many women authors have challenged the male literary icon of the womanless, free-standing male adventurer who shapes the natural world to his individual vision. Instead, works by Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, and Gloria Naylor envision a semidivine female figure who brings into being an alternative community which honors female worth and female creativity. The works of these writers offer the empowerment of female authorship and acknowledge the womans community whose collective experience shapes their narratives. Helen Fiddyment Levy was a professor of English literature at George Mason University.
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Fiction of the Home Place : Jewett, Cather, Glasgow, Porter, Welty, and Naylor
author
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Levy, Helen Fiddyment.
publisher
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University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin
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0878056637
print isbn13
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9780878056637
ebook isbn13
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9780585227085
language
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English
subject
Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism, American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism, Place (Philosophy) in literature, Women and literature--United States, Social problems in literature, Sex role in literature, Family in literature,
publication date
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1992
lcc
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PS374.D57L48 1993eb
ddc
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813.009/355
subject
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Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism, American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism, Place (Philosophy) in literature, Women and literature--United States, Social problems in literature, Sex role in literature, Family in literature,
Page iii
Fiction of the Home Place
Jewett, Cather, Glasgow, Porter, Welty, and Naylor
Helen Fiddyment Levy
University Press of Mississippi Jackson
Page iv
Copyright 1992 by the University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Levy, Helen Fiddyment. Fiction of the home place: Jewett, Cather, Glasgow, Porter, Welty, and Naylor / Helen Fiddyment Levy. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87805-663-7 (pbk.),ISBN 0-87805-554-1 (cloth) 1. Domestic fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism. 2. American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism. 3. Women and literatureUnited States. 4. Social problems in literature. 5. Sex role in literature. 6. Family in literature. 7. Home in literature. I. Title. PS374.D57L48 1993 813.009'355dc20 93-7679 CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available
Page v
To those who have sewn in my family, but especially Joanie.
Page vii
Remember this A wave over a patch of zinnias and the scarlet petals take flight. And this Winged marigolds follow them into the air. Listen A thump of the stick: morning glories start to sing. The other place. Butterflies and hummingbirds. And the wisdom to draw them. Ancient eyes, sad and tired: it's time you knew. An old house with a big garden. And it's seen its share of pain. Gloria Naylor Mama Day (1988).
Success breeds. There are few overriding community interests to check the leader's impetus. The greater his influence, the more support he attracts.... He has made [his followers'] lineages and ancestral shrines less meaningful for them than his own favour.... Recruited and harnessed to a competition which seems to hold glittering rewards for all, they find themselves trying to work a complex system of rules. In the name of the rules the Big Men justify their demands. Whether it be rules of monetary exchange, debt and credit, or rules of etiquette and hospitality, the system constitutes an oppressive grid. Londoners too know what this can mean. As a system of control industrial society is impersonal. Some more than others feel their lives controlled, not by persons, but by things. They wander through a forest of regulations, imponderable forces are represented by forms to complete in triplicate. parking meters, inexorable laws. Their cosmos is dominated by objects of which they and fellow humans are victims. The essential difference between a cosmos dominated by persons and one dominated by objects is the impossibility of bringing moral pressures to bear upon the controllers: there is no person-to-person communication with them. Mary Douglas Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology
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Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
1 Introduction: The Other Place
3
2 Home-Made: Sarah Orne Jewett
31
3 Damming The Stream: Willa Cather
64
4 Building On Barren Ground: Ellen Glasgow
97
5 The Land That Is Nowhere: Katherine Anne Porter
131
6 The Oldest Root Sometimes Blooms Most: Eudora Welty
161
7 Lead On with Light: Gloria Naylor
196
8 Conclusion: Crocuses
223
Notes
235
Works Consulted
241
Index
259
Page xi
Acknowledgments
The occupation of independent scholar makes for short acknowledgments. But I have been blessed with the help of those who believed in the community of scholars and who acted on their beliefs. First, thanks are due to those colleagues and friends who read sections of the manuscript and the whole in various stages of readiness: Connie Johnson, Bud Hamilton, Lisa MacFarlane, Bob and Gene Berkhofer. Especially gracious and industrious were my dear friends and colleagues, Mary Corbin Sies, Gary Magruder, and Rosemary Kowalski. Susan Rosowski showed great generosity in reading and giving thoughtful commentary on the introductory chapter and the Cather criticism of a writer whom she met at a conference and who then presumed on that acquaintance. My dissertation director, Lyall Powers, has offered me valuable criticism and much good conversation on matters literary and cultural throughout my career. The engaged scholarship and teaching of John O. King during my graduate career and beyond, along with his inestimable direct help with methodology and style, set a high standard for my work and for that of all his students. The combined contributions of these dedicated colleagues saved me from many errors both of commission and omission. Even more, they saved me from the self-pity that overtakes those who work alone and receive little bureaucratic compensation or validation.
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