Agriculture and biblical tradition in Jewett’s “A Dunnet Shepherdess”
Critics have yet to discuss adequately Sarah Orne Jewett’s Christianity as a source for her fiction. Jewett is best known for The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), a series of sketches set in southern coastal Maine, but it is in a little-known tale, “A Dunnet Shepherdess,” that she explicitly reve...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2015]
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2015, Volume: 64, Issue: 4, Pages: 400-413 |
IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HA Bible KBQ North America TJ Modern history |
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Summary: | Critics have yet to discuss adequately Sarah Orne Jewett’s Christianity as a source for her fiction. Jewett is best known for The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), a series of sketches set in southern coastal Maine, but it is in a little-known tale, “A Dunnet Shepherdess,” that she explicitly reveals her characters’ biblical convictions, which are inspired by her own Congregational heritage. Through a shepherdess’s experience, Jewett indicates that her Dunnet Landing community is knit together by the biblical concern for practices of the earth. |
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ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333115585496 |