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The Shanachie, Volume 23, Number 3, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

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The Shanachie, Volume 23, Number 4, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

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The Shanachie, Volume 23, Number 2, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

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The Shanachie, Volume 23, Number 1, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

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Writing The Northland: Jack London's And Robert W. Service's Imaginary Geography, Cara Erdheim

English Faculty Publications

Book review by Cara Erdheim.

Giehmann, Barbara Stefanie. Writing the Northland: Jack London's and Robert W. Service's Imaginary Geography. Würzburg, Germany: Könighausen & Neumann, 2011.

Nature, Domestic Labor, And Moral Community In Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours And Elinor Wyllys, Richard M. Magee

English Faculty Publications

Cooper's argument for a domestic ideal situated within a rural setting reinforces the importance of community connections through a shared sense of morality, as well as understanding of the natural world. Community alone—the human connections—never seems to be enough in Cooper's formulation, but must always exist with an awareness of the world outside the narrow confines of one's own domestic sphere. Concern for one's fellow-beings necessitates a concern for the world in which these beings live, and Cooper understands that when any bonds are broken—such as the bonds that connect us to the natural world—other bonds are threatened. Thus, when …