Charles W. Chestnutt's The Marrow of Tradition
Clearly, one can expect differing critical views of a novel; from the
author's perspective we see one view, from a publisher's another, and from
the reviewer's yet another. This is especially true of Charles W.
Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition. If one observes both the contemporary
reviews of the novel and letters exchanged between Chesnutt and his
friends and publisher, Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., one will see the
disparity in opinions regarding the work. Chesnutt himself felt the work
was of at least good quality, and remarked often of its significant
purpose in letters to Booker T. Washington, Houghton, Mifflin, Isaiah B.
Scott, and William H. Moody. Reviewers, too, were able to see the
"purpose" of the novel as a significant one as evidenced by reviews in
Chautauquan, the New York Times, The Literary World, Nation, and New York
Age.
However, most reviews, even those which pointed out the important theme of
the novel, suggested that it was not a well written one, often seeming
overly dramatic and too fictionalized. Even Chesnutt's friend, W.D.
Howells, was quick to attack the quality of the novel. And, as one might
expect, a few reviews (especially those of a Southern origin) were nothing
but negative. Examples of these are the Atlanta Journal, Bookman, and the
Independent. Particularly scathing is that of the Independent, a magazine
which was considered friendly to the cause of Black rights. In a series of
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...things through a glass darkly, but we can
perhaps by constant iteration gradually help to undeceive them. I have
made an effort in this direction through my latest novel, The Marrow of
Tradition." And if the novel did not become the successor to Uncle Tom's
Cabin, as Chesnutt hoped, at least, in inflaming the critical community,
he achieved what he had desired: "to create sympathy throughout our
country for our cause. [...] I know I am on the weaker side in point of
popular sympathy, but I am on the stronger side in point of justice and
morality, and if I can but command the skill and the power to compel
attention, I think I will win out in the long, so far as I am personally
concerned, and will help the cause, which is vastly more important."
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