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Journal Article
\Between promise and hard pan\: Environment and History in The Beulah Quintet
2012
Overview
Mary Lee Settle's The Beulah Quintet originates in part from \"Beulah Land,\" a nineteenth-century hymn written by Edgar P Stites; the hymn explicitly connects land with redemption, and in her 1996 introduction to O Beulah Land, Settle recalls having found the \"impassioned theme\" of her book after hearing Burl Ives's rendition of the hymn: \"I still stand in that room in England, and still hear that hunger for a land hoped for, fought over, and never quite found - what we think of as the American Dream, lost, defiled, complicated and used by the cynical, and still so deeply sought by the rest of us...\" Some lines from the hymn - \"I've reached the land of corn and wine, /And all its riches freely mine,\" - become ironic in the last three books of the quintet, as the word \"mine\" takes on new meaning with the implementation of salt mining in Know Nothing and the coal mining that nearly ruins the region in The Scapegoat and in The Killing Gmünd.
