Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work

Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work

by Haeja K. Chung
ISBN-10:
0870133810
ISBN-13:
9780870133817
Pub. Date:
10/31/1995
Publisher:
Michigan State University Press
ISBN-10:
0870133810
ISBN-13:
9780870133817
Pub. Date:
10/31/1995
Publisher:
Michigan State University Press
Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work

Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on Her Work

by Haeja K. Chung

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Overview

At her death in 1986, Harriette Simpson Arnow left a modest collection of published work: ten short stories, five novels, two non-fiction books, a short autobiography, and nineteen essays and book reviews. Although the sum is small, her writing has been examined from regionalist, Marxist, feminist, and other critical perspectives.  
     The 1970s saw the first serious attempts to revive interest in Arnow. In 1971, Tillie Olsen identified her as a writer whose "books of great worth suffer the death of being unknown, or at best, a peculiar eclipsing." Joyse Carol Oates wrote in The New York Times Book Review that Arnow's The Dollmaker is "our most unpretentious American masterpiece."  
     In the 1990s, it is appropriate to take stock of her earlier work and to prompt reexamination of this powerful yet poorly understood writer. This collection of critical essays examines traditional as well as new interpretations of Arnow and her work. It also suggests future directions for Arnow scholarship and includes studies of all of Arnow's writing, fiction and non-fiction, published and unpublished. 
 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780870133817
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication date: 10/31/1995
Pages: 301
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Haeja K.Chung is Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University.

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