Swallow barn, or, A sojourn in the Old Dominion
By: John Pendelton Kennedy ; with an introduction by Lucinda H. MacKethan.
Contributors: MacKethan, Lucinda Hardwick.
Series: The Library of Southern civilization
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
Subjects: Plantation life -- Fiction; Virginia -- Fiction
Other titles: Swallow barn.; Sojourn in the Old Dominion.
Description: The book itself is an event in cultural history, not to be taken as truth, but as an argument of what one man thought The South should be, highly influential in the global justification of paternalism and a self-fullfilling prophesy that inspired the culture of the Antebellum South.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [xxxi]-xxxii.