"Men: The Outer Reality in the Fiction Of Sarah Orne Jewett" by Susan D. Tilka
 

Date of Award

7-7-1975

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

Abstract

Sarah Orne Jewett's writing has an unmistakably feminine touch. It is hard to posit exactly why this is so, since she chose to write according to the nineteenth-century tenets of Flaubert, presenting ordinary life with the fidelity of history. Her work amply attests to this effort and her truthfulness of observation comes from her own ground of experience. She chose to see and discuss the life of her "backwater" homeland in New England. But what makes this so unusually female is that Jewett chose to see and discuss the observations through her own feminine sensibilities and values, and those of her women characters.

Comments

An Essay Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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