Constance Fenimore Woolson

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Collected Stories (LOA #327)

ConstanceFenimore Woolson, Anne Boyd Rioux

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The Library of America
04 February 2020

Short stories

A landmark of literary recovery- the first major edition of 19th-century America's greatest woman writer

A landmark of literary recovery- the first major edition of an overlooked genius who in her lifetime was considered 19th-centuryAmerica'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.

By: ConstanceFenimore Woolson
Edited by: Anne Boyd Rioux
Imprint: The Library of America
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 135mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9781598536508
ISBN 10: 1598536508
Pages: 750
Publication Date: 04 February 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) is the author of six novels- The Old Stone House (1873), Anne (1882), For the Major (1883), East Angels (1886), Jupiter Lights (1889), and Horace Chase (1894). In her lifetime, two collections of her stories appeared- Castle Nowhere- Lake-Country Sketches (1875) and Rodman the Keeper- Southern Sketches (1880). Two more collections were published after her death, The Front Yard and Other Italian Stories (1895) and Dorothy and Other Italian Stories (1896). Anne Boyd Rioux is a Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, President of the Constance Fenimore Woolson Society, and the author of three books- Writing for Immortality- Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America (2004), Constance Fenimore Woolson- Portrait of a Lady Novelist (2016), and Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy- The Story of Little Women and Why It Sill Matters (2018).

Reviews for Constance Fenimore Woolson: Collected Stories (LOA #327)

"""Woolson is one of those great ignored American writers, a writer of amazing stories that have a lucid spark and a keen wit. She was serious, and worthy of being considered along with James and William Dean Howells -- though she was a lot more fun."" —The Arkansas Democrat Gazette ""[E]ven after a generation of recovery [Woolson's] life remains better known than her work. The twenty-three stories collected in this volume should change that. . . ."" —Micahel Gorra, The New York Review of Books "