Sidelights On American Literature
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New England Puritanism 189 in It was in this second period then, the period which ended with "Pembroke" and the exquisite story "Evelina s Garden, " that Miss Wilkins made her strongest and most original contribution to American literature. But criticism had been doing its work. Almost every reviewer since her first book had closed his review by pointing out her bareness and repression of style, her short, almost gasping sentence structure and, in the case of Tern- broke, " which had run serial...ly as a novel, had noted its looseness of structure. They declared it to be like "Jane Field/ of short story texture rather than a novel, and they bade her back to her earlier field, often with the observation that the short story by its very nature unfits one who has long used it for any other form of fiction.
That Miss Wilkins was aware of this criticism cannot be doubted. In the only bit of literary criticism that I can find from her pen, a critique of Emily Bronte written in 1903, she has expressed the opinion that had the author of "Wuthering Heights" "lived longer she might have become equally ac quainted with the truth and power of grace; she might have widened her audience; she might have 190 Side-Lights on American Literature attracted instead of repelled, but she could not have written a greater book, so far as the abstract qual ity of greatness goes.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
New England Puritanism 189 in It was in this second period then, the period which ended with "Pembroke" and the exquisite story "Evelina s Garden, " that Miss Wilkins made her strongest and most original contribution to American literature. But criticism had been doing its work. Almost every reviewer since her first book had closed his review by pointing out her bareness and repression of style, her short, almost gasping sentence structure and, in the case of Tern- broke, " which had run serial...ly as a novel, had noted its looseness of structure. They declared it to be like "Jane Field/ of short story texture rather than a novel, and they bade her back to her earlier field, often with the observation that the short story by its very nature unfits one who has long used it for any other form of fiction.
That Miss Wilkins was aware of this criticism cannot be doubted. In the only bit of literary criticism that I can find from her pen, a critique of Emily Bronte written in 1903, she has expressed the opinion that had the author of "Wuthering Heights" "lived longer she might have become equally ac quainted with the truth and power of grace; she might have widened her audience; she might have 190 Side-Lights on American Literature attracted instead of repelled, but she could not have written a greater book, so far as the abstract qual ity of greatness goes.
What to read after Sidelights On American Literature?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Fred Lewis Pattee to read onlineMoreLess
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