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Appalachian Literature And American Myth: Fiction From The Southern Mountains Anne Shelby Appalachian Heritage, Volume 13, Number 4, Fall 1985, pp. 50-63 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1985.0071 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/441396/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:09 GMT from JHU Libraries Appalachian Literature And American Myth: Fiction From The Southern Mountains by Anne Shelby Part II Mary Noailles Murfree: splendor" and "ever-changing grandeur," a "Nature in her Higher Moods" "fair land which touched the sky."18 Murfree's prose is replete with such descrip- The first writer of fiction to popularize a vi- tions, which her critics have regarded as ex- sion of Appalachia and to invest it with cessive." Murfree's effusions, however, do meaning was Mary Noailles Murfree, a native more than paint the landscape: they are part middle Tennesseean whose collection of short and parcel of her vision of the significance of stories, In the Tennessee Mountains "created the mountain region. In Murfree's view, those a literary sensation" in 1884.17 The Ap- dizzy heights and impenetrable forests palachia Murfree made famous was a separate the mountaineer from civilization, "wilderness," a land of "dizzy heights," and that separation is the
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