Series Editor's Preface Introduction: Sarah Orne Jewett and the Traffic in Words JUNE HOWARD Country's Portrayal of Community and the Exclusion of Difference SANDRA A. ZAGARELL Gender and American Realism in The Country of the Pointed Firs MICHAEL DAVITT BELL Material Culture, Empire, and Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs ELIZABETH AMMONS Regionalism and Nationalism in Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs SUSAN GILLMAN Notes on Contributors Selected Bibliography