Status Updates From The Reign of Law

The Reign of Law is also a novel of “faith and doubt”, a category that has had plenty of attention in the UK Victorian context, perhaps less in the American.

I first read this “Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields” many decades ago, and am returning to it now as part of my deep dive into American local color literature. It is a Bildungsroman as much about education as it is about hemp (although it is good to be reminded of that crop’s importance in Kentucky history).