A new home, who'll follow? or, Glimpses of Western life
By: Caroline M. Kirkland ; edited with an introduction by Sandra A. Zagarell.
Contributors: Zagarell, Sandra A.
Series: American women writers series
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Women and literature -- Michigan.; Michigan -- History -- To 1837 -- Fiction.
Other titles: Glimpses of Western life.
Description: "A New Home is a vivid contribution to a new king of narrative developed during the antebellum period, ethnographic fiction. Kirkland highlights the importance and the drama of local practices and everyday life in Montacute. She traces the way two groups of settlers slowly adjust to each other--the old hands and the newcomers from the East. Dramatizing differences of class and culture, she also shows how the groups finally form a genuine community and a new diverse culture. Kirkland also gives ethnographic fiction an original twist: she satirizes the provincialism and the rigidity of both groups of settlers."--Publisher's description from paperback back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.