The common lot and other stories : the published short fiction, 1908-1921 / Emma Bell Miles ; edited by Grace Toney Edwards.

By:

Miles, Emma Bell, 1879-1919 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Edwards, Grace Toney [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, Ohio University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780804040747
0804040745

Uniform titles:

Short stories

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Common lot and other storiesDDC classification:

813/.52 23

LOC classification:

PS3525 .I482 2016eb

Other classification:

LCO002000 | LCO000000 | FIC000000

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Contents:

The common lot -- The broken urn -- A dark rose -- The home-coming of Evelina -- Mallard plumage -- The dulcimore -- The breaks of Caney -- Flyaway flittermouse -- Three roads and a river -- Flower of noon -- At the top of Sourwood -- Enchanter's nightshade -- Thistle bloom -- A dream of the dust -- Love o' man -- The white marauder -- Turkey luck.

Summary: "The seventeen narratives of The Common Lot and Other Stories, published in popular magazines across the United States between 1908 and 1921 and collected here for the first time, are driven by Emma Bell Miles's singular vision of the mountain people of her home in southeastern Tennessee. That vision is shaped by her strong sense of social justice, her naturalist's sensibility, and her insider's perspective. Women are at the center of these stories, and Miles deftly works a feminist sensibility beneath the plot of the title tale about a girl caught between present drudgery in her father's house and prospective drudgery as a young wife in her own. Wry, fiery, and suffused with details of both natural and social worlds, the pieces collected here provide a particularly acute portrayal of Appalachia in the early twentieth century. Miles's fiction brings us a world a century in the past, but one that will easily engage twenty-first-century readers. The introduction by editor and noted Miles expert Grace Toney Edwards places Miles in the literary context of her time. Edwards highlights Miles's quest for women's liberation from patriarchal domination and oppressive poverty, forces against which Miles herself struggled in making a name for herself as a writer and artist. Illustrations by the author and Miles family photographs complement the stories"-- Provided by publisherSummary: "A collection of the 17 short stories by Emma Bell Miles previously published in magazines between 1908 and 1921, with an introduction, editorial notes, and suggestions for further reading by Grace Toney Edwards"-- Provided by publisher

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"The seventeen narratives of The Common Lot and Other Stories, published in popular magazines across the United States between 1908 and 1921 and collected here for the first time, are driven by Emma Bell Miles's singular vision of the mountain people of her home in southeastern Tennessee. That vision is shaped by her strong sense of social justice, her naturalist's sensibility, and her insider's perspective. Women are at the center of these stories, and Miles deftly works a feminist sensibility beneath the plot of the title tale about a girl caught between present drudgery in her father's house and prospective drudgery as a young wife in her own. Wry, fiery, and suffused with details of both natural and social worlds, the pieces collected here provide a particularly acute portrayal of Appalachia in the early twentieth century. Miles's fiction brings us a world a century in the past, but one that will easily engage twenty-first-century readers. The introduction by editor and noted Miles expert Grace Toney Edwards places Miles in the literary context of her time. Edwards highlights Miles's quest for women's liberation from patriarchal domination and oppressive poverty, forces against which Miles herself struggled in making a name for herself as a writer and artist. Illustrations by the author and Miles family photographs complement the stories"-- Provided by publisher

"A collection of the 17 short stories by Emma Bell Miles previously published in magazines between 1908 and 1921, with an introduction, editorial notes, and suggestions for further reading by Grace Toney Edwards"-- Provided by publisher