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In the mid-1950s, when Mary Lee Settle published The Love Eaters and The Kiss of Kin, critics hailed her as a sharp and acidic writer. However, when in subsequent novels the focus of her work shifted from contemporary social realism to historical fiction, the same critics who previously had praised her work lost enthusiasm. In Mary Lee Settles Beulah The Price of Freedom, Brian Rosenberg examines Settles workespecially Prisons, O Beulah Land, Know Nothing, The Scapegoat, and The Killing Ground to show the magnitude and artistic merit in a single, continuous fictiona fiction of major importance. According to Rosenberg, the Beulah quintet is one of the few grandly ambitious works of historical fiction written by an American woman. In the novels, Settle attempts to apply a European tradition of historical re-creation to American experience and, in so doing, to adapt a largely conservative form to the demands of a revolutionary history and ideology. Although the immediate subject is the history of a region in West Virginia, the deeper subject is nothing less than the history of the beliefs, conflicts, and illusions that gave rise to, and continue to distinguish, American culture. Rosen

Author

Rosenberg, Brian C.

Publisher

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807116746

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities