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Miss Grief and Other Stories
Constance Fenimore Woolson
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Description for Miss Grief and Other Stories
Paperback. To celebrate her forthcoming biography of Constance Fenimore Woolson, Anne Boyd Rioux has selected the best of this classic writer's stories. Editor(s): Rioux, Anne Boyd. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
In this gathering Anne Boyd Rioux has chosen fiction over the course of Constance Fenimore Woolson's life. Woolson's stories travel from the rural Midwest to the deep South and then across the Atlantic to Italy and Britain.
In this gathering Anne Boyd Rioux has chosen fiction over the course of Constance Fenimore Woolson's life. Woolson's stories travel from the rural Midwest to the deep South and then across the Atlantic to Italy and Britain.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393352009
SKU
V9780393352009
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About Constance Fenimore Woolson
Anne Boyd Rioux is a professor of English at the University of New Orleans and president of the Woolson Society. A recipient of two NEH fellowships, she is the author of Wielding the Pen and Writing for Immortality.
Reviews for Miss Grief and Other Stories
Woolson's writing was never better than when she was grappling with the ambivalence of men like [Henry] James toward women like herself. . . . Her short stories demonstrate irony, force and feeling that occasionally surpass the stories of Edith Wharton and Howells, rivaling 'the Master' himself even as they take aim directly at his privilege and presumptions.
Amy Gentry An American realist of a high order. . . . The writing in all of [Woolson's stories] is remarkably good, but it is the American stories that will send the reader looking for more of Woolson's work.
Vivian Gornick [Woolson was] more than the smitten confidante of Henry James. . . . 'Solomon' and 'St. Clair Flats' are particularly fine, meticulously delineating the natural beauty of eastern Ohio and the Great Lakes Region.
Brenda Wineapple Like Jane Austen, Woolson's protagonists knew and understood their place within the rigid social ladder of acceptable convention, and her portraits are vivid, picture perfect snapshots of that time and place . . . Rioux reintroduces an American master of regionalism and local color.
Nancy Powell A potent . . . [and] exciting volume. . . . These finely-crafted, place-rooted stories are startling in their mythic atmosphere, vital descriptions, and elegiac tributes to lost worlds. They are charged with a quietly ferocious tension between old-fashioned structures and the progressive psychological portraits shaped by Woolson's compassion and penetrating vision. . . . Woolson belongs in every American literature collection. An intriguing collection of seven of Woolson's sophisticated, modernist short stories . . . small but captivating. . . . This collection includes stories set in the South, the Great Lakes, Florence, and London, reflecting Woolson's cosmopolitan worldview, and embodying a strong sense of place with an equally strong sense of character.
David Holmberg With a forward by T ib n and an introduction by Rioux, this volume carefully sequences seven of Woolson's notable stories. . . . It is striking just how accessible Woolson's style is throughout. . . . As Rioux's work has made plain, Woolson proved her detractors wrong.
Rebecca Foster
Amy Gentry An American realist of a high order. . . . The writing in all of [Woolson's stories] is remarkably good, but it is the American stories that will send the reader looking for more of Woolson's work.
Vivian Gornick [Woolson was] more than the smitten confidante of Henry James. . . . 'Solomon' and 'St. Clair Flats' are particularly fine, meticulously delineating the natural beauty of eastern Ohio and the Great Lakes Region.
Brenda Wineapple Like Jane Austen, Woolson's protagonists knew and understood their place within the rigid social ladder of acceptable convention, and her portraits are vivid, picture perfect snapshots of that time and place . . . Rioux reintroduces an American master of regionalism and local color.
Nancy Powell A potent . . . [and] exciting volume. . . . These finely-crafted, place-rooted stories are startling in their mythic atmosphere, vital descriptions, and elegiac tributes to lost worlds. They are charged with a quietly ferocious tension between old-fashioned structures and the progressive psychological portraits shaped by Woolson's compassion and penetrating vision. . . . Woolson belongs in every American literature collection. An intriguing collection of seven of Woolson's sophisticated, modernist short stories . . . small but captivating. . . . This collection includes stories set in the South, the Great Lakes, Florence, and London, reflecting Woolson's cosmopolitan worldview, and embodying a strong sense of place with an equally strong sense of character.
David Holmberg With a forward by T ib n and an introduction by Rioux, this volume carefully sequences seven of Woolson's notable stories. . . . It is striking just how accessible Woolson's style is throughout. . . . As Rioux's work has made plain, Woolson proved her detractors wrong.
Rebecca Foster