Introduction : Sarah Orne Jewett and the traffic in words / J. Howard
Country's portrayal of community and the exclusion of difference / S.A. Zagarell
Gender and American realism in The country of pointed firs / M.D. Bell
Material culture, empire, and Jewett's Country of the pointed firs / E. Ammons
Regionalism and nationalism in Jewett's Country of the pointed firs / S. Gillman.