Constance Fenimore Woolson, Jupiter Lights

Leonardo Buonomo (Universita degli studi di Trieste)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.2: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth Century, 1783-1900.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1889

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Constance Fenimore Woolson’s penultimate novel, Jupiter Lights, ran serially in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine between January and September 1889, and was published in book form in New York and London in the same year. The critics were not kind in their assessment of Woolson’s latest effort. Though some acknowledged, albeit reluctantly, that here and there the novel confirmed Woolson’s gifts as a literary landscapist, the majority chastised it for the improbability of the plot and the loose narrative structure. The reviewer of the authoritative Atlantic Monthly went so far as to declare that “many passages in the book… read as if they were random notes jotted down by the novelist”. Never entirely s…

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

1196 words

Citation: Buonomo, Leonardo. "Jupiter Lights". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 April 2008 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4261, accessed 22 November 2024.]

Save this article