...Emily Satterwhite Duke University Press 2006 Emily Reading Craddock, Reading Murfree: Satterwhite Local Color, Authenticity, and Geographies of Reception You see it had never occurred to any of us that ‘‘Craddock’’ was not a man...

...-color stories and toward a recognition of how local color constituted an aesthetic that could be configured in radically antithetical ways by an archrealist like Mary Murfree and an impressionist like Hamlin Garland. Ultimately, local color helps us see realism not as an indiscriminate, antiliterary...

..., slave-owning, Washington socialite whose family profited from the sale of Cherokee lands. In the ‘‘Stranger People’s’’ Country. By Mary Noailles Murfree. Ed. Marjorie Pryse. Lin- coln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2005. xlvi, 211 pp. Paper, $19.95. This is the first edition of the novel to appear since...

... Mountains, was a pseudonym for the female Mary Noailles Murfree, with the revelation, upon the publication of his 1898 story “The Wife of His Youth,” that author Charles Chesnutt was a black man. Hardwig uses these two “outings” to discuss the role of “authenticity” in regional writing...

... regional texts about Appalachia, tracing the invention of that area from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries. Beginning with Mary Noailles Murfree’s local-color fic- tion and moving through middlebrow bestsellers of the early to mid-twentieth century like John Fox Jr., Harriet...

... regional texts about Appalachia, tracing the invention of that area from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries. Beginning with Mary Noailles Murfree’s local-color fic- tion and moving through middlebrow bestsellers of the early to mid-twentieth century like John Fox Jr., Harriet...

... regional texts about Appalachia, tracing the invention of that area from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries. Beginning with Mary Noailles Murfree’s local-color fic- tion and moving through middlebrow bestsellers of the early to mid-twentieth century like John Fox Jr., Harriet...

... and regions without simply retracing or reorganizing their now-entrenched meanings? Satterwhite’s study examines popular regional texts about Appalachia, tracing the invention of that area from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries. Beginning with Mary Noailles Murfree’s local...

... and regions without simply retracing or reorganizing their now-entrenched meanings? Satterwhite’s study examines popular regional texts about Appalachia, tracing the invention of that area from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries. Beginning with Mary Noailles Murfree’s local...

... and regions without simply retracing or reorganizing their now-entrenched meanings? Satterwhite’s study examines popular regional texts about Appalachia, tracing the invention of that area from the late nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries. Beginning with Mary Noailles Murfree’s local...

... twentieth centuries. Beginning with Mary Noailles Murfree’s local-color fic- tion and moving through middlebrow bestsellers of the early to mid-twentieth century like John Fox Jr., Harriet Simpson Arnow, Catherine Marshall, James Dickey, and the flurry of late twentieth-century films and novels about...