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Regionalist fiction was a popular genre in 1890s America, and Grace King of Louisiana and Sarah Orne Jewett of Maine were among the best-known women writing in a crowded field. In part 1, "Reenvisioning Traditional Regionalism," Inness and Royer (both Miami Univ., Ohio) include revisionary studies of King and Jewett along with discussions of Native American Zitkala-Sa, African American Pauline Hopkins, and several other authors. The 13 contributors to this important volume of previously unpublished essays include two of the most noted commentators on literary regionalism, Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse, who edited a major anthology of primary texts, American Women Regionalists, 1850-1910 (1992). As the title of this volume implies, several essays--especially in part 2, "Expanding the Genre"--focus on authors, works, and issues not usually associated with regionalism. These range from Meridel Le Sueur's 1940s social criticism and Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert's Hispanic autobiography to the ecologically concerned novels of Wilma Dykeman and the contemporary "wilderness plots" of Leslie Marmon Silko and Barbara Kingsolver. Recommended for all academic libraries, lower-division undergraduate level through faculty. J. W. Hall University of Mississippi