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Note, Dec. 6, 2020: I just edited this to insert an accidentally-omitted comma.
Written in a solidly Realist style, this novel was part of the vanguard of the introduction of the Realist school to the historical fiction genre; as late as the early 1900s, Realist writers and critics such as Frank Norris (who roundly condemned Sarah Orne Jewett as a traitor to the movement for writing a novel set during the Revolutionary War) were still dogmatically committed to the view that the present was the on ...more
Written in a solidly Realist style, this novel was part of the vanguard of the introduction of the Realist school to the historical fiction genre; as late as the early 1900s, Realist writers and critics such as Frank Norris (who roundly condemned Sarah Orne Jewett as a traitor to the movement for writing a novel set during the Revolutionary War) were still dogmatically committed to the view that the present was the on ...more
