Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sex, class, and "category crisis" : reading Jewett's transitivity / Marjorie Pryse -- "In search of local color" : context, controversy, and The country of the pointed firs / Donna M. Campbell -- "Links of similitude" : the narrator of The country of the pointed firs and author-reader relations at the end of the nineteenth century / Melissa Homestead -- "To make them acquainted with one another" : Jewett, Howells, and the dual aesthetic of Deephaven / Paul R. Petrie -- Challenge and compliance : textual strategies in A country doctor and nineteenth-century American women's medical autobiographies / Judith Bryant Wittenberg -- From transcendentalism to ecofeminism : Celia Thaxter and Sarah Orne Jewett's island views revisited / Marcia B. Littenberg -- The professor and the Pointed firs : Cather, Jewett, and problems of editing / Ann Romines -- Visions of New England : the anxiety of Jewett's influence on Ethan Frome / Priscilla Leder -- "Whiteness" as loss in Sarah Orne Jewett's "The foreigner" / Mitzi Schrag -- "How clearly the gradations of society were defined" : negotiating class in Sarah Orne Jewett / Alison Easton -- Party out of bounds : gender and class in Jewett's "The best china saucer" / Sarah Way Sherman -- "A brave happiness" : rites and celebrations in Jewett's ordered past / Graham Frater -- We do not all go two by two ; or, Abandoning the ark / Patti Capel Swartz -- Sarah Orne Jewett's Maine : a journey back / Carol Schachinger.