Self-study
P1
OPA ·
Jewett is a "domestic novelist"
Author’s Concession ·
Some similarities
focus on women; domestic occupations; social interactions; men relegated to periphery
Main Point / Critique ·
Major differences
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.
P2
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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.
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.
P3
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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.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Spotlight
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a
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The author doesn’t conclude that “any attempt at explanation does violence to the unity” of something. Rather, the author suggests that differing conceptions of fiction can explain why Jewett’s work lacks certain things contained in the work of domestic novelists.
b
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The author doesn’t suggest that there are any incompatible explanations for the lack of child-rearing and religious content in Jewett’s work. The author never indicates that these explanations can’t both play a role in Jewett’s work.
c
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The author never suggests that different explanations are actually similar. Rather, the author suggests that differing conceptions of fiction can explain why Jewett’s work lacks certain things contained in the work of domestic novelists.
d
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The author doesn’t make a counterargument against the need for a hypothesis to explain the absence of child-rearing and religion in Jewett’s work. Rather, the author proposes a hypothesis that differing conceptions of fiction as an explanation for the lack of those things in Jewett’s work.
e
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The author begins by mentioning explanatory hypotheses —