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The Common Lot and Other Stories: The Published Short Fiction, 19081921
Emma Bell Miles
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Description for The Common Lot and Other Stories: The Published Short Fiction, 19081921
Hardcover. Editor(s): Edwards, Grace Toney. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 506.
The seventeen narratives of The Common Lot and Other Stories, published in popular magazines across the United States between 1908 and 1921 and collected here for the first time, are driven by Emma Bell Miles's singular vision of the mountain people of her home in southeastern Tennessee. That vision is shaped by her strong sense of social justice, her naturalist's sensibility, and her insider's perspective. Women are at the center of these stories, and Miles deftly works a feminist sensibility beneath the plot of the title tale about a girl caught between present ... Read more
The seventeen narratives of The Common Lot and Other Stories, published in popular magazines across the United States between 1908 and 1921 and collected here for the first time, are driven by Emma Bell Miles's singular vision of the mountain people of her home in southeastern Tennessee. That vision is shaped by her strong sense of social justice, her naturalist's sensibility, and her insider's perspective. Women are at the center of these stories, and Miles deftly works a feminist sensibility beneath the plot of the title tale about a girl caught between present ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Swallow Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
506g
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Ohio, United States
ISBN
9780804011730
SKU
V9780804011730
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About Emma Bell Miles
Emma Bell Miles (1879 -1919) was a gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture. She chronicled her home region through her prolific journals, illustrations, essays, poetry, and fiction. Grace Toney Edwards is professor emerita of Appalachian Studies and English at Radford University. She was senior editor of A Handbook to Appalachia: An ... Read more
Reviews for The Common Lot and Other Stories: The Published Short Fiction, 19081921
We're just beginning to understand Miles's creative output. The publication of her short stories, seen again in print for the first time in a hundred years, marks an important contribution to scholarship on rural Appalachian fiction and her role in women's fiction of the era. Grace Toney Edwards is the leading authority today on Miles's writings, and is the one ... Read more