A Marsh Island

A Marsh Island
Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2023-06-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1512824275
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Toward the end of her life, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) made a surprising disclosure. Instead of the critically lauded The Country of the Pointed Firs, Jewett declared her "best story" to be A Marsh Island (1885), a little-known novel. Why? One reason is that it demonstrates Jewett's range. Known primarily for her vignettes, Jewett accomplished in these pages a truly great novel. Undoubtedly, another reason lies in the novel's themes of queer kinship and same-sex domesticity, as enjoyed by the flamboyant protagonist Dick Dale. Written a few years into Jewett's decades-long companionship with Annie Fields, A Marsh Island echoes Jewett's determination to split time between her family home in Maine and Fields's place on Charles Street in Boston. The novel follows the adventures of Dale, a Manhattanite landscape painter in the Great Marsh of northeastern Massachusetts and envisions the latter region's saltmarsh as a figure for dynamic selfhood: the ever-shifting boundaries between land and sea a model for valuing both individuality and a porous openness to the gifts of others. Jewett's works played a major role in popularizing the genre of American regionalism and has garnered praise, both in her time and ours, for her skill in rendering the local landscapes and fishing villages along or near the coasts of New England. Just as Jewett brought attention to the unique beauty and value of the Great marsh region, editor Don James McLaughlin reveals a convergence of regionalism and sexuality in Jewett's work in his introduction. A Marsh Island reminds us that queer kinship has a long tradition of being extended to incorporate queer ecological belonging, and that the meaning of "companionship" itself is enriched when we acknowledge its indebtedness to environment.

Marsh Island

Marsh Island
Author: Sonya Bates
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2009-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554691184
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Two brothers become lost in the woods while camping with their father.

A Marsh Island (Classic Reprint)

A Marsh Island (Classic Reprint)
Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2015-07-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781451016680
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Excerpt from A Marsh Island One August afternoon the people who drove along the east road of a pleasant Sus sex County town were much interested in the appearance of a young man who was hard at work before a slender easel near the wayside. Most of the spectators felt a strong desire to linger; if any had happened to be afoot they would surely have looked over the artist's shoulder; as it was, they inspected with some contempt the bit of scenery which was honored with so much at tention. This 'was in no way remarkable. They saw a familiar row of willows and a foreground of pasture, broken here and there by gray rocks, while beyond a tide river the marshes seemed to stretch away to the end of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Engineer

The Engineer
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2011
Genre: Military engineering
ISBN:
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A Marsh Island

A Marsh Island
Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230196312
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