Jesse Hilton Stuart is a regional writer in that most of his works are set in Greenup County of northeastern Kentucky in the Appalachian Mountains. He is the poet laureate of Kentucky. His audience is...
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In a career of more than half a century Jesse Stuart produced nearly sixty books. He is still being read, in English or in translation, in England, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Germany, ...
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Jesse Stuart 's first five collections of short stories (1936-1958), along with his other continuing literary production, set the pattern for his imaginary world with its distinctively real dimension,...
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Critical Essay by Lee Pennington
[Stuart has a distinct vision of life which permeates all of his novels.] There is the dark world…. It is the world which Stuart sees around him—Kentuck...
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Critical Essay by J. R. Lemaster
Although the Agrarian Movement was in its heyday while Stuart was a student at Vanderbilt, he had mixed emotions about the actual achievements of the group. As he say...
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Critical Essay by Wade Hall
[When] a man writes honestly, without pretension or distortion, about the way people look, act, and think, he produces fiction that is believable and humor that is natural...
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Critical Essay by Jim Wayne Miller
In Jesse Stuart's short story "This Farm for Sale" Dick Stone decides to sell out and move into town. He authorizes his old friend Melvin Spenc...
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Critical Essay by Dayton Kohler
[Good] regional writing is always made at home. Jesse Stuart has written five books without going far beyond the borders of W-Hollow in his native Greenup County. Ten ...
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Critical Essay by Frank H. Leavell
[In Trees of Heaven, Tarvin Bushman] is the ideal youngster with no faults and few complexities. Created simply, he is free to observe and make his own judgments. H...
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Critical Essay by Kenneth Clarke
Stuart uses authentic regional dialect, faithfully rendering his time and place, combining his knowledge of life with imagination to create a unique literary expressi...
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In the following essay, Wabnitz explores the role of suspense in Stuart's short stories.
Jesse Stuart is young, spirited, stockily built, hair rumpled, hands strong, well-shaped, and large; ...
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In the following excerpt, Rohrberger discusses Stuart as a regionalist writer.
[A writer] clearly in the regionalist tradition is Jesse Stuart, who does for the culture of the Appalachian region of...
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In the following essay, Bode offers a mixed review of Plowshare in Heaven.
Jesse Stuart is a goodhearted writer. A writer is not to be judged by good intentions; but, nevertheless, Stuart's ...
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In the following essay, Bogart discusses the universal appeal of Stuart's short fiction.
You enter the world of Jesse Stuart. The scene is eastern Kentucky, the hills, the mountains, the for...
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In the following excerpt, Blair provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of Stuart's short stories.
In 1936, the first of Jesse Stuart's collection of short stories was published. T...
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In the following excerpt, Clark examines the role of religion in Stuart's short fiction.
But the hill people still saw God. . . .
Beyond Dark Hills
With less of social protest than o...
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In the following essay, Clarke perceives Stuart's use of local legend as "providing a felicitous vehicle for his perception of a changing society within a framework of timeless nature.&#...
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In the following essay, Clarke explores Stuart's use of folklore in his short stories, contending that, like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, Stuart provides an original, authentic voice t...
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In the following essay, Paterson provides a positive review of The Best-Loved Short Stories of Jesse Stuart.
"They really brought men to justice back in them days when they had to have someo...
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In the following essay, written for the reprint of Stuart's Clearing in the Sky, Foster surveys the major themes of the collection.
When literary historians a hundred years hence write a his...
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Jesse (Hilton) Stuart
Critical Essay by Lee Pennington
