Viewing Dr. Zabelle Stodola, A Review and Reconsideration of Edward Eggleston, "The Mystery of Metropolisville" (1873).Dr. Zabelle Stodola, A Review and Reconsideration of Edward Eggleston, "The Mystery of Metropolisville" (1873).Readers of the Minnesota Legal History Project may be forgiven if they have never heard of the nineteenth-century fiction writer, social historian, and Methodist minister Edward Eggleston (1837-1902), let alone his obscure novel "The Mystery of Metropolisville" (1873). Although neither Eggleston nor his novel has been completely neglected by historians and literary scholars, no one has adequately analyzed how closely Minnesota's legal and penal systems underpin the plot of the novel. Such an analysis is made in this review and reconsideration of "The Mystery of Metropolisville" by Dr. Zabelle Stodola, Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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