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Other| June 01 2019 Brief Mention American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 438–446. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7529287 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Brief Mention. American Literature 1 June 2019; 91 (2): 438–446. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7529287 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literature Search Advanced Search Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism. By J. Samaine Lockwood. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2015. xiii, 222 pp. Paper, $29.95; e-book, $19.99.New England regionalism recast the figure of democratic dissent as the unwed daughter. Following figures from Sarah Orne Jewett to Mary Wilkins Freeman, this book argues that “colonial revivalism formed part of a larger regionalist movement, one that provided a range of women cultural producers a sanctioned framework within which to rethink the relationships among gender, social-sexual forms, history, racial affiliations, and collective identities.” Delving into this movement using a feminist lens, this study contends that New England regionalists organized their lives in ways modern society would call queer, as these figures refused marriage or formed same-sex relationships.London and the Making of Provincial Literature: Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800–1850. By Joseph Rezek. Philadelphia: Univ. of... You do not currently have access to this content.

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