Oldtown Folks (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- First Published: 1869
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Regional
- Time of Work: Late eighteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, New England, American Revolution, Eighteenth century, Calvinism, Duels or dueling, Puritans or Puritanism, Realism, Eighth century
- Locales: Boston, MA, New England
Places Discussed
Oldtown. New England town modeled on Natick, Massachusetts, the hometown of Stowe’s husband. More of the action takes place in the homes of the Oldtowners than in church, but a keen religious consciousness characterizes most Oldtowners. In the early Federalist years in which the novel is set, villagers ponder religious changes more often than civic ones. The daughter and sister of clergymen and wife of a biblical scholar, Stowe makes her characters think hard and often, not only on the nature of religious observance and duty but on difficult theological...
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