TY  - GEN
T1  - In the "Stranger People's" country
T2  - Legacies of nineteenth-century American women writers.
A1  - Craddock, Charles Egbert, 1850-1922
A2  - Pryse, Marjorie, 1948-
LA  - English
PP  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
YR  - 2005
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm61522080
AB  - "In the "Stranger People's" Country tells the story of contact between a late-nineteenth-century Tennessee mountain community and an amateur archaeologist who wants to open the graves of the prehistoric "leetle stranger people," a source of myth to the mountaineers. A politician looking for votes in the country has invited the archaeologist Shattuck to travel into the mountains with him, but a mountain woman, Adelaide Yates, threatens to shoot anyone who attempts to violate the graves. The courageous mountaineer Felix Guthrie joins the defense of the "stranger people" and competes with Shattuck for the attention of another mountain woman, Letitia Pettingill." "Author Mary Noailles Murfree (1850-1922) uses dialect and vivid descriptions of mountain scenes to introduce the reader to Appalachia and its people. She creates respectful representations of Appalachian life and explores some of the changes the arrival of outsiders brought to the mountains. Murfree's depiction of social and aesthetic issues increases our understanding of the nineteenth century and serves as a literary precursor of the twentieth-century Appalachian activist movements to preserve the environment against the strip-mining and chemical industries." "This edition of Murfree's 1891 novel, reprinted for the first time, includes notes about Appalachian dialect and the novel's references to archaeology, which have some basis in actual archaeological discoveries in Tennessee."--Jacket.
NO  - Original ed., published in 1891, written under Mary Noailles Murfree's pseudonym of Charles Egbert Craddock.
CN  - PS2454 I5 2005eb
SN  - 080325041X
SN  - 9780803250413
SN  - 9780803283138
SN  - 080328313X
KW  - Appalachian Region, Southern : Fiction.
KW  - Archaeologists : Fiction.
KW  - Mountain life : Fiction.
KW  - Politicians : Fiction.
KW  - Cemeteries : Fiction.
KW  - Appalaches (Sud) : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - Archéologues : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - Vie en montagne : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - Politiciens : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - Cimetières : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - Archaeologists
KW  - Cemeteries
KW  - Mountain life
KW  - Politicians
KW  - Southern Appalachian Region
KW  - American Literature.
KW  - English.
KW  - Languages & Literatures.
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Psychological fiction.
KW  - Political fiction.
ER  -