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05203aam a22005658i 4500 001 C0C0E048807011EABE26D64B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200417010021 008 191002t20202020nyu b 000 j eng d 020 $a 1598536508 020 $a 9781598536508 035 $a (OCoLC)1129712203 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDX $d CPL $d OCLCF $d PSC $d NHM $d SILO 043 $a e-it--- $a n-usu-- $a e-it--- 050 4 $a PS3361 $b .R56 2020 082 04 $a 813.4 $2 23 100 1 $a Woolson, Constance Fenimore, $d 1840-1894, $e author. 240 10 $a Short stories. $k Selections 245 10 $a Constance Fenimore Woolson : $b collected stories / $c Anne Boyd Rioux, editor. 246 1 $i Half-title page: $a Constance Fenimore Woolson 246 18 $a Woolson collected stories 246 3 $a Constance Fenimore Woolson collected stories 264 1 $a New York, N.Y. : $b The Library of America, $c [2020] 300 $a 724 pages ; $c 21 cm 490 1 $a The Library of America series ; $v 327 500 $a "This volume contains twenty-three stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson selected from the two short story collections published in the author's lifetime ... her two posthumously published collections ... and her uncollected stories." 520 $a "A landmark of literary recovery: the first major edition of an overlooked genius who in her lifetime was considered 19th-century America's greatest woman writer. In the eyes of her contemporaries, Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) ranked with George Eliot as one of the two greatest women writers of the English language. She wrote fiction of remarkable intellectual power that outsold those of her male contemporaries Henry James and Willian Dean Howells. James enshrined memories of his long, complicated friendship with Woolson in The Beast in the Jungle and The Wings of the Dove, and more recently Colm Tobin treated the relationship in his novel The Master. But Woolson's close association with James, and her likely suicide in Venice, have tended to overshadow her own literary accomplishments, pigeonholing her as a martyr to the male literary establishment. This volume, the most comprehensive gathering of Woolson's stories to date, represents the culmination of decades of recovery work done by scholars, and puts the focus back on the work, where it belongs. Set variously in the Great Lakes region, the post-Civil War South, and Europe, Woolson's short stories often concern outsiders of one kind or another-prophets and misfits living in remote landscapes, uneducated coal miners, impoverished spinsters, neglected nuns, a haunted caretaker of the dead, destitute southerners, and female artists driven to extreme behavior as they seek the admiration or approval of established (male) critics or writers. Woolson's minute realism captures both the social texture of her time and the inner emotional lives of these overlooked and marginalized characters. Most of all her writings startle us with their simmering intensity, their sensual descriptions of the environment, and refusal to smooth out the ambiguities and tensions that inevitably result from human efforts to communicate and connect. Her fiction is deeply human, resonating with a power across the centuries that makes them remarkably modern for today's readers."-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 00 $g Chronology. $t In Sloane Street -- $t Jeannette ; $t Solomon ; $t Wilhelmina ; $t St. Clair Flats ; $t The Lady of Little Fishing -- $g From Rodman the keeper: southern sketches: $t Rodman the keeper ; $t Sister St. Luke ; $t Miss Elisabetha ; $t Old Gardiston ; $t The south devil ; $t In the cotton country ; $t Felipa ; $t King David -- $g From The front yard and other Italian stories: $t The front yard ; $t A pink villa ; $t The street of the Hyacinth -- $g From Dorothy and other Italian stories: $t Dorothy ; $t A transplanted boy ; $t A Florentine experiment ; $t At the ChaÌteau of Corinne -- $g Uncollected stories: $t Miss Grief ; $t In Sloane Street -- $g Chronology. 651 0 $a Great Lakes Region (North America) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Southern States $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Italy $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Great Lakes Region. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01258523 651 7 $a Italy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204565 651 7 $a Southern States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01244550 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726740 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Rioux, Anne Boyd, $e editor. 740 0 $a Castle Nowhere: lake-country sketches. 740 0 $a Rodman the keeper: southern sketches. 740 4 $a The front yard and other Italian stories. 740 0 $a Dorothy, and other Italian stories. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894. $s Short stories. Selections. $t Collected stories. $d New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2020] $z 9781598536515 $w (OCoLC)1140202755 830 0 $a Library of America ; $v 237. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317022541.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20210428013737.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200505014927.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C0C0E048807011EABE26D64B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search