Rethinking Regionalism: Sarah Orne Jewett's Mental Landscapes

The uniqueness of the relation between parent and child imagined by Sarah Orne Jewett is rather undermined by the fact that she had referred to the same passage in her obituary for her father, a doctor, twenty years previously: "the thought of him brings to mind these words of the wise old doct...

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Published in:J19 2017-10, Vol.5 (2), p.341-359
Main Author: Burrows, Stuart
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Children
Death & dying
Deaths
Fiction
Genre
Imagination
Intimacy
Jewett, Sarah Orne (1849-1909)
Literary criticism
Parent-child relations
Regionalism
Regions
Writers
Writing
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Summary:The uniqueness of the relation between parent and child imagined by Sarah Orne Jewett is rather undermined by the fact that she had referred to the same passage in her obituary for her father, a doctor, twenty years previously: "the thought of him brings to mind these words of the wise old doctor, Sir Thomas Browne, `and since there is something of us that will still live on, join both lives together and live in one but for the other." In this instance Jewett hews nearer to the sense of Browne's original passage, since the two lives she imagines being joined together both appear to belong to her father. Here, Burrows offers a new approach to regionalism, one which refuses to see it as a limitation or diminishment of the imagination.
ISSN:2166-742X
2166-7438
2166-7438
DOI:10.1353/jnc.2017.0018