Southern women novelists and the Civil War
Subtitle: trauma and collective memory in the American literary tradition since 1861
By: Sharon Talley
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: The University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781621900139
Subjects: History; Literature and the war; American fiction; Women authors; History and criticism; American Historical fiction; American War stories; War and literature; War in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-409) and index.
Table of contents: title: Novels from the Civil War period (1861-1865). Augusta Jane Evans's Macaria; or, altars of sacrifice; title: Sallie Rochester Ford's Raids and romance of Morgan and his men; title: Novels from Reconstruction (1865-1877). Marion Harland's Sunnybank; title: Mary Ann Cruse's Cameron Hall: a story of the Civil War; title: Rebecca Harding Davis's Waiting for the verdict; title: 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; title: Ellen Glasgow's The battle-ground; title: Mary Johnson's The long roll and Cease firing; title: Novels from the modern period (1914-1945). Evelyn Scott's The wave; title: Margaret Mtchell's Gone with the wind; title: Caroline Gordon's None shall look back; title: Novels since World War II (1945-present). Margaret Walker's Jubilee; title: Kaye Gibbons' On the occasion of my last afternoon; title: Josephine Humphreys's Nowhere else on earth; title: Alice Randall's The wind done gone.