Gerald Haslam by Gerald Locklin, and Helen Hunt Jackson by Rosemary Whitaker, and Richard Brautigan by Jay Boyer, and Ole Edvart Rölvaag by Ann Moseley, and Lanford Wilson by Mark Busby

1988 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-158
Author(s):  
Russell Burrows
Keyword(s):  
Helen Hunt Jackson ◽  
Richard Brautigan

Metaregionalism: The Global Pacific Northwest

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Giles
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
William Gibson ◽  
Gary Snyder ◽  
Domestic Security ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Richard Brautigan ◽  
Douglas Coupland

This chapter examines the metaregional dimensions of the Pacific Northwest and the ways in which its very inscription as a region elucidates the fraught and contested relation between text and place in American literature. Elettra Bedon coined the term “metaregionalism” to describe a self-conscious manipulation of certain forms of dialect. On analogy with metafiction, metaregionalism might be said to foreground the assumptions involved in traditional ascriptions of place. The chapter first considers the epistemology of space before discussing how the Pacific Northwest was tackled in the writings of Gary Snyder, Ursula Le Guin, and Richard Brautigan. It also analyzes the fiction of William Gibson and Douglas Coupland; Gibson deploys Vancouver to achieve critical distance from the behemoths of U.S. capitalism, and Coupland brings his native Pacific Northwest into the wider oceanic orbit of Asia and Australasia in order to chart a generational passage away from domestic security and entitlement.

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson

Hispania ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 641-642
Author(s):  
Ada Ortúzar-Young
Keyword(s):  
Helen Hunt Jackson

Dreaming of Babylon by Richard Brautigan

1978 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-302
Author(s):  
Bobbie Burch Lemontt
Keyword(s):  
Richard Brautigan

Recommended: Helen Hunt Jackson

1982 ◽  
Vol 71 (8) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Millen Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Hunt Jackson (H. H.).

1939 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 305
Author(s):  
Lyon N. Richardson ◽  
Ruth Odell
Keyword(s):  
Helen Hunt Jackson

Legal Realisms

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Holbo
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Helen Hunt Jackson ◽  
American Novel ◽  
The Law ◽  
American Society

U.S. historians have long considered the Civil War and its Reconstruction as a second American revolution. Literary scholars, however, have yet to show how fully these years revolutionized the American imagination. One marker of this was the postwar search for a “Great American Novel”—a novel fully adequate to the breadth and diversity of the United States in the era of the Fourteenth Amendment. The debate over what full representation would mean led to a thoroughgoing reconstruction of the meaning of “literature” for readers, writers, politics, and law. Legal Realisms examines the transformation of the idea of “realism” in literature and beyond in the face of uneven developments in the racial, ethnic, gender, and class structure of American society. The ideal of equality before the law conflicted with persistent inequality, and it was called into question by changing ideas about accurate representation and the value of cultural difference within the visual arts, philosophy, law, and political and moral theory. Offering provocative new readings of Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Helen Hunt Jackson, Albion Tourgée, and others, Legal Realisms follows the novel through the worlds of California Native American removal and the Reconstruction-era South, of the Mississippi valley and the urban Northeast. It shows how incomplete emancipation haunted the celebratory pursuit of a literature of national equality and explores the way novelists’ representation of the difficulty of achieving equality before the law helped Americans articulate the need for a more robust concept of society.

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