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OPA · Jewett is a "domestic novelist"

Author’s Concession · Some similarities

focus on women; domestic occupations; social interactions; men relegated to periphery

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Main Point / Critique · Major differences

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Premise · No children or childrearing

Domestic novels revolve around children which are absent in Jewett's works.

Premise · Secular worldview

Domestic novels are religious whereas Jewett's works are secular.

Author's Anticipated Rebuttal · These differences could be attributable to historical changes

Meaning that Jewett may yet be a domestic novelist.

Concession / Premise · Jewett had a difference conception of nature and fiction

The historical factor may be part of the explanation but it's not the main explanation.

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Premise · Domestic novels view fiction as part of a continuum

Fiction is connected to religious writing and domestic instruction. A novel could double as a child-rearing manual and a tract on Christian duty.

Premise · Jewett thinks of fiction as distinct

The point of fiction isn't to teach anything. It's "high-culture" and has value in and of itself.

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Historical context · Fiction became "pure art"

Fiction's value is independent of social this or teaching that. This is like our modern conception of fiction: it's valuable in and of itself as art.

Main Point / Critique · Jewett is fundamentally different from domestic novelists

Because she viewed fiction as art.

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Critique or debate

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Meaning in context (of word, phrase, or idea)

Structure

To understand the meaning of “continuum” in context, read the sentence containing the word and the surrounding sentences. We’re told that people conceived of fiction as part of a “continuum” that included writings devoted to religious and domestic instruction. This suggests that “continuum” involves being part of a set of writings with various purposes.

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The description of the “continuum” doesn’t involve a relationship to past writings. It instead relates to fiction’s relationship to other kinds of writing with educational purposes.

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This best captures the meaning in context. Fiction wasn’t viewed as distinct from other categories — it was part of a category that “included writings devoted to piety and domestic instruction.”

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The description of the “continuum” doesn’t relate to serial publication (publishing fiction in series of chapters). It instead relates to fiction’s relationship to other kinds of writing.

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The description of the “continuum” doesn’t relate to the evolution of fiction. It instead relates to fiction’s relationship to other kinds of writing.

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The description of the “continuum” doesn’t relate to the cohesiveness of society. It instead relates to fiction’s relationship to other kinds of writing. Fiction is part of a continuum with other writings that have the purposes of religious and domestic instruction. Whether these writings make society more cohesive or continuous is never mentioned.

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