A Bloodsmoor Romance (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Joyce Carol Oates
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Alternative history
- Time of Work: 1879-1900
- Setting: Bloodsmoor, a valley in eastern Pennsylvania
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Fantasy, Alternate history
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Acting or actors, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Spiritual life or spirituality, Feminism, Women’s issues, Eighteenth century, Wit or humor, Occultism or the occult
- Locales: Pennsylvania
Characters Discussed
John Quincy Zinn, a gentleman inventor, fifty-two years old in 1879. John is tall, wide-shouldered, and handsome despite the dagger-shaped birthmark on his left temple. He is the son of a dishonest peddler whom, as a child, he saw tarred, feathered, and burned. John was adopted by a farm family, became a radical schoolmaster influenced by transcendentalism, and finally, after being lionized by Philadelphia society, married into the wealthy Kiddemaster family, which supports his experimental laboratory and large family. Convinced of the inevitability of...
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