03549nam 2200589 a 450 991096434280332120200520144314.00-8166-6831-0(CKB)1000000000487226(SSID)ssj0000364372(PQKBManifestationID)11253735(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000364372(PQKBWorkID)10398723(PQKB)11269771(MiAaPQ)EBC345343(OCoLC)575741520(MdBmJHUP)muse39622(Au-PeEL)EBL345343(CaPaEBR)ebr10231109(CaONFJC)MIL525966(OCoLC)476161570(BIP)29523180(EXLCZ)99100000000048722620730821d1965 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPioneers & caretakers a study of 9 American women novelists3rd ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press[1965]1 online resource (202 pages)Reprint. Originally published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1965. With new pref.Includes index.0-8166-0344-8 0-8166-6124-3 Sarah Orne Jewett -- Edith Wharton -- Ellen Glasgow -- Willa Cather -- Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Jean Stafford -- Carson McCullers -- Mary McCarthy.Pioneers and Caretakers was first published in 1965.In a series of stimulating and highly readable essays, Mr. Auchincloss discusses the work of nine American women novelists in whom he finds a unity of common tradition. As the title of the book implies, Mr. Auchincloss regards these novelists as caretakers of our culture and, at the same time, as literary pioneers. The writers he discusses are Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, Carson McCullers, and Mary McCarthy.In explaining his thesis Mr. Auchincloss writes: "In the migrations of tribes the women were responsible for the packing and preservation of the household goods. They have always been the true conservatives, the caretakers of the culture. But because in our nation we have to go back so few decades to get to the Indians, the functions of the caretaker and of the pioneer have become curiously blended. To preserve a bit of the American tradition, one has to preserve a bit of the frontier."A notable thing about our women writers is that they have struck a more affirmative note than the men. Their darkness is not as dark as that of Dreiser or Lewis or Faulkner or O'Neill, which is not to say that they see America less clearly, but that they see it more discriminatingly. They have a sharper sense of their stake in the national heritage, and they are always at work to preserve it. They never destroy; they never want the clean sweep. They are conservatives who are always trying to conserve."American fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistoryAmerican fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistory.813.09Auchincloss Louis443992MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910964342803321Pioneers & caretakers4480212UNINA