The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Stafford
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction, Character study
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Homelessness or homeless people, Traveling or travelers, Europe or Europeans, 1940’s, Alienation, Social life, 1930’s, Loneliness, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Mind and body
Form and Content
The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford does not follow any chronology but is instead organized into four sections according to geography, borrowing titles from Mark Twain and Henry James, both of whom Stafford admires. “Innocents Abroad,” as the title suggests, includes six stories set in France, England, and the Caribbean. All the stories involve an American protagonist, usually a woman, who is displaced and alienated in a foreign setting.
In “Maggie Meriwether’s Rich Experience,” Maggie, from Nashville, Tennessee, finds herself unable...
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