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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464346903321

Autore

Talley Sharon <1952->

Titolo

Southern women novelists and the Civil War : trauma and collective memory in the American literary tradition since 1861 / / Sharon Talley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, Tennessee : , : The University of Tennessee Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-62190-084-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (457 pages)

Disciplina

813.009/358737

Soggetti

American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Historical fiction, American - History and criticism

Electronic books.

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Literature and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Novels from the Civil War period (1861-1865). Augusta Jane Evans's Macaria; or, altars of sacrifice -- Sallie Rochester Ford's Raids and romance of Morgan and his men -- Novels from Reconstruction (1865-1877). Marion Harland's Sunnybank -- Mary Ann Cruse's Cameron Hall: a story of the Civil War -- Rebecca Harding Davis's Waiting for the verdict -- Novels from the "redeemed" South and the turn of the century (1877-1914). Mary Noailles Murfree's Where the battle was fought and the storm centre -- Ellen Glasgow's The battle-ground -- Mary Johnson's The long roll and Cease firing -- Novels from the modern period (1914-1945). Evelyn Scott's The wave -- Margaret Mtchell's Gone with the wind -- Caroline Gordon's None shall look back -- Novels since World War II (1945-present). Margaret Walker's Jubilee -- Kaye Gibbons' On the occasion of my last afternoon -- Josephine Humphreys's Nowhere else on earth -- Alice Randall's The wind done gone.