{"product_id":"constance-fenimore-woolson-collected-stories-loa-327-hardcover","title":"Constance Fenimore Woolson: Collected Stories (Loa #327) - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eConstance Fenimore Woolson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnne Boyd Rioux\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 Willian Dean Howells. James enshrined memories of his long, complicated friendship with Woolson in \u003ci\u003eThe Beast in the Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wings of the Dove\u003c\/i\u003e, and more recently Colm Tobin treated the relationship in his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConstance Fenimore Woolson\u003c\/b\u003e (1840-1894) is the author of six novels: \u003ci\u003eThe Old Stone House\u003c\/i\u003e (1873), \u003ci\u003eAnne \u003c\/i\u003e(1882), \u003ci\u003eFor the Major\u003c\/i\u003e (1883), \u003ci\u003eEast Angels\u003c\/i\u003e (1886), \u003ci\u003eJupiter Lights\u003c\/i\u003e (1889), and \u003ci\u003eHorace Chase\u003c\/i\u003e (1894). In her lifetime, two collections of her stories appeared: \u003ci\u003eCastle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches \u003c\/i\u003e(1875) and \u003ci\u003eRodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches\u003c\/i\u003e (1880). Two more collections were published after her death, \u003ci\u003eThe Front Yard and Other Italian Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (1895) and \u003ci\u003eDorothy and Other Italian Stories \u003c\/i\u003e(1896). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Boyd Rioux\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, President of the Constance Fenimore Woolson Society, and the author of three books: \u003ci\u003eWriting for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eConstance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), and \u003ci\u003eMeg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Sill Matters\u003c\/i\u003e (2018).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 750\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47330641150201,"sku":"9781598536508","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/HpNkEWrfs19781598536508.webp?v=1769606416","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/constance-fenimore-woolson-collected-stories-loa-327-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}