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Studies in American Fiction back issues
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Editor's comment.(Editorial)
September 22, 2008... The College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern University has supported Studies in American Fiction consistently for more than three decades. My colleagues on SAF's internal editorial board and I are deeply grateful that the College's longstanding financial commitment, together with that of...
Stephen Crane and Methodism's realism: translating spiritual sympathy into urban experience.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... In 1883, three years after Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane died, the widowed Helen Crane moved their family from Port Jervis, New York to Asbury Park, New Jersey--one of the many resort towns that had recently sprung up along the Jersey Coast. This section of the Jersey Shore was familiar...
Wedded to race: Charles Chesnutt's Stories of the Color Line.(The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Uncle Wellington, the title character of Charles W. Chesnutt's 1899 short story "Uncle Wellington's Wives," must grapple with an unusual marital problem. (1) It is a problem absent from most nineteenth-century fictions regarding marriage, and yet it was confronted by thousands of those whom...
"Important, responsible work": Willa Cather's office stories and her necessary editorial career.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... In December 1908 Sarah Orne Jewett wrote a much-quoted letter to Willa Cather, in which she urged the younger woman to leave her "incessant, important, responsible work" as an editor at McClure's magazine to devote herself to her own writing. (1) Cather scholars and fans like this letter,...
Poverty, payment, power: Kathleen Thompson Norris and popular romance.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... 2006 marked the fortieth anniversary of the death of Kathleen Thompson Norris. Who? I hear my under-fifty colleagues cry. The question is both understandable and remarkable, considering that between 1910 and 1950, Norris was the equivalent of Nora Roberts or Stephen King. The author of...