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A Marsh Island
by Sarah Orne Jewett
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- ISBN 13
- 9781512824261
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Paperback / softback. New. <p>Toward the end of her life, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849â1909) made a surprising disclosure. Instead of the critically lauded <i>The Country of the Pointed Firs</i>, Jewett declared her âbest storyâ to be <i>A Marsh Island</i> (1885), a little-known novel. Why? One reason is that it demonstrates Jewettâs range. Known primarily for her vignettes, Jewett accomplished in these pages a truly great novel. Undoubtedly, another reason lies in the novelâs themes of queer kinship and same-sex domesticity, as enjoyed by the flamboyant protagonist Dick Dale. Written a few years into Jewettâs decades-long companionship with Annie Fields, <i>A Marsh Island </i>echoes Jewettâs determination to split time between her family home in Maine and Fieldsâs 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 regionâs 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.<br /> Jewettâs works played a major role in popularizing the genre of American regionalism and have 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 Jewettâs work in his introduction. <i>A Marsh Island </i>reminds us that queer kinship has a long tradition of being extended to incorporate queer ecological belonging, and that the meaning of âcompanionshipâ itself is enriched when we acknowledge its indebtedness to environment.</p>
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- A Marsh Island
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- Sarah Orne Jewett
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- Paperback
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- 9781512824261
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