Evelyn Scott

The Narrow House (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Evelyn Scott's first novel, The Narrow House, depicts a family stricken by dysfunctional domesticity. Revolving around troubled members of the Farley family, Scott exposes notions of romantic love, longing, and the image of the Southern belle as damaging, unrealistic constructs, all against the backdrop of a seemingly normal middle-class existence that in previous decades had been idealized in Southern writing. Published to high praise when it appeared in 1921, The Narrow House vaulted Scott to literary celebrity in her day.

In this new critical edition, Mary E. Papke contextualizes Scott's first and possibly best writing effort with an astute introduction that discusses Scott and her contemporaries, the work's importance to the genre of the novel, and the small but ongoing reclamation of Scott's place in literary history. Completely updated and formatted for a modern readership, this critical edition of The Narrow House is sure to find its way into classrooms and onto bookshelves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Tennessee Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781621906735
• Artikelnr.: 73220116

Autorenporträt

Evelyn Scott was an American playwright, novelist, and poet. Scott, a modernist and experimental writer, "was a significant literary figure in the 1920s and 1930s, but she eventually sank into critical oblivion." She was born in Clarksville, Tennessee and spent her early years in New Orleans, Louisiana. She later wrote about her youth in Tennessee in her autobiography, Background in Tennessee. Her first husband was Frederick Creighton Wellman. When they met, he was married and served as head of Tulane's School of Tropical Medicine. Evelyn and her husband adopted pseudonyms when they fled to Brazil in 1913. Frederick altered his name to Cyril Kay-Scott, and Evelyn accepted Scott as her surname. Scott married John Metcalfe, an English writer, in 1930. She published under both the names Ernest Souza and her birth name, Elsie Dunn.