MORGAN, Jack, and Louis A. Renza, eds. The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996. 208 pp. $24.95. As the editors of this collection of short stories point out, Sarah Orne Jewett gives us literature that "represent[s] the first serious treatment of the Irish in America by an important literary figure and a prescient engagement with what today we would term the issue of multiculturalism." With characters such as Dinny Killoren, Don Bogan, "old" Mary, and others, Jewett veers from the "Paddy" stereotype that marks regional literature of the period. Jack Morg...
