A "bloody dark pastryman": Cormac McCarthy's recipe for gunpowder and historical fiction in 'Blood Meridian.'
| Publisher | Mississippi State University |
| Publication | The Mississippi Quarterly |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0026-637X |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | v46 |
| Issue | n4 |
| Published | 1993-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Criticism and interpretation | Cormac McCarthy |
| Author | n/a | John Emil Sepich |
| Related Content | Type |
| Blood Meridian | Salem on Literature |
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy's TALE OF A ROUGH GANG, bounty-hunting scalps in the mid-nineteenth-century American Southwest, contains a remarkable character named Judge Holden. Judge Holden's importance in the novel is far greater than his actual position as one of this band of renegades and desperadoes under the command of the historical "Captain" John Joel Glanton.(1) The gang's first meeting with Holden, in a story told by an ex-priest turned scalper named Ben Tobin, is fascinating.(2) Tobin opens with Glanton's decimated gang in flight, retreating ahead of several score...
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