June A Howard

New Essays on the Country of the Pointed Firs

New Essays on the Country of the Pointed Firs

Form and History in American Literary Naturalism

Publishing the Family

Publishing the Family

New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs (The American Novel)

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett is one of the most important works of New England local color fiction. This collection of essays builds on feminist literary scholarship that affirms the value of Jewett's work, but goes beyond previously published studies by offering an analysis ...

Publishing the Family (New Americanists)

In Publishing the Family June Howard turns a study of the collaborative novel The Whole Family into a lens through which to examine American literature and culture at the beginning of the twentieth century. Striving to do equal justice to historical particulars and the broad horizons of social chang...

Form and History in American Literary Naturalism

Examining the novels of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and other writers, June Howard presents a study of American literary naturalism as a genre. Naturalism, she states, is a way of imagining the world and the relation of the self to the world, a way of making sense -- and making narr...

Point Clear: What If We're Already In Heaven...

A Short Story about a Long Wonderful Life