Research Catalog

Title

Constance Fenimore Woolson : collected stories / [Constance Fenimore Woolson] ; Anne Boyd Rioux, editor.

Author

Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894

Publication

• New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Rioux, Anne Boyd

Description

724 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"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 William 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 novel The Master. But Woolson's close association with James, and her likely suicide in Venice, have tended to overshadow her own literary accomplishments, pigeonholing her as a martyr to the male literary establishment. This volume, the most comprehensive gathering of Woolson's stories to date, represents the culmination of decades of recovery work done by scholars, and puts the focus back on the work, where it belongs. Set variously in the Great Lakes region, the post-Civil War South, and Europe, Woolson's short stories often concern outsiders of one kind or another-prophets and misfits living in remote landscapes, uneducated coal miners, impoverished spinsters, neglected nuns, a haunted caretaker of the dead, destitute southerners, and female artists driven to extreme behavior as they seek the admiration or approval of established (male) critics or writers. Woolson's minute realism captures both the social texture of her time and the inner emotional lives of these overlooked and marginalized characters. Most of all her writings startle us with their simmering intensity, their sensual descriptions of the environment, and refusal to smooth out the ambiguities and tensions that inevitably result from human efforts to communicate and connect. Her fiction is deeply human, resonating with a power across the centuries that makes them remarkably modern for today's readers."--

Series Statement

The Library of America series ; 327

Uniform Title

• Short stories. Selections
• Library of America ; 327.

Alternative Title

• Short stories.
• Constance Fenimore Woolson
• Woolson collected stories
• Constance Fenimore Woolson collected stories
• Castle Nowhere: lake-country sketches.
• Rodman the keeper: southern sketches.
• The front yard and other Italian stories.
• Dorothy, and other Italian stories.

Subjects

• Southern States
• Great Lakes Region (North America) > Fiction
• Short stories
• Southern States > Fiction
• Fiction
• Great Lakes Region
• Italy > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• Short stories.

Note

• "This volume contains twenty-three stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson selected from the two short story collections published in the author's lifetime ... her two posthumously published collections ... and her uncollected stories."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

From Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country sketches: Peter the parson ; Jeannette ; Solomon ; Wilhelmina ; St. Clair Flats ; The Lady of Little Fishing -- From Rodman the keeper: southern sketches: Rodman the keeper ; Sister St. Luke ; Miss Elisabetha ; Old Gardiston ; The south devil ; In the cotton country ; Felipa ; King David -- From The front yard and other Italian stories: The front yard ; A pink villa ; The street of the Hyacinth -- From Dorothy and other Italian stories: Dorothy ; A transplanted boy ; A Florentine experiment ; At the Château of Corinne -- Uncollected stories: Miss Grief ; In Sloane Street -- Chronology.

Call Number

PS221

ISBN

• 9781598536508
• 1598536508

OCLC

1129712203

Author

Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894, author.

Title

Constance Fenimore Woolson : collected stories / [Constance Fenimore Woolson] ; Anne Boyd Rioux, editor.

Publisher

New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Library of America series ; 327

Library of America ; 327.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Rioux, Anne Boyd, editor.

Spine Title

Woolson collected stories

Added Title

Castle Nowhere: lake-country sketches.

Rodman the keeper: southern sketches.

The front yard and other Italian stories.

Dorothy, and other Italian stories.

Other Form:

Online version: Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894. Short stories. Selections. Collected stories. New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2020] 9781598536515 (OCoLC)1140202755

LCCN

2019940936

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PS221 .A4 v. 327