Author: WILSON, AUGUSTA EVANS
Title: Devota "J'y Suis, J'y Reste" (Biographical Reminiscences By T.C. Deleon)
Description: New York: G. W. Dillingham Co, 1913. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Stuart Travis. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. "Evans's propaganda masterpiece was Macaria – a novel she later claimed was written by candlelight while nursing wounded Confederates. The novel is about Southern women making the ultimate sacrifice for the Confederacy; it promoted national desire for an independent national culture and reflected Southern values as they were at that time. The novel was published in 1864, on both sides of the Mason–Dixon line, becoming a popular work among Southerners and Northerners alike. General George Henry Thomas, commander of the Union Army in Tennessee, confiscated copies and had the books burned. Melissa Homestead writes that the transportation of the novel to New York was deliberate, done in installments and nearly simultaneous with the novel's preparation for publication in the South. Thus, while previous critics, scholars and biographers have all treated Macaria’s appearance in the North as unauthorized, the truth is much more meaningful. By dispensing with the romantic lie that the novel appeared in a "bootleg" edition, Homestead debunks the hard and fast distinction between Northern and Southern readerships as an invention of historians and critics rather than an accurate reflection of reading practices of the period. ". Very Good .
Keywords: Modern Fiction Augusta Evans Wilson Stuart Travis Southern Fiction The Confederacy Victorian Fiction Modern Fiction
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Title: Devota "J'y Suis, J'y Reste" (Biographical Reminiscences By T.C. Deleon)
Description: New York: G. W. Dillingham Co, 1913. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Stuart Travis. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. "Evans's propaganda masterpiece was Macaria – a novel she later claimed was written by candlelight while nursing wounded Confederates. The novel is about Southern women making the ultimate sacrifice for the Confederacy; it promoted national desire for an independent national culture and reflected Southern values as they were at that time. The novel was published in 1864, on both sides of the Mason–Dixon line, becoming a popular work among Southerners and Northerners alike. General George Henry Thomas, commander of the Union Army in Tennessee, confiscated copies and had the books burned. Melissa Homestead writes that the transportation of the novel to New York was deliberate, done in installments and nearly simultaneous with the novel's preparation for publication in the South. Thus, while previous critics, scholars and biographers have all treated Macaria’s appearance in the North as unauthorized, the truth is much more meaningful. By dispensing with the romantic lie that the novel appeared in a "bootleg" edition, Homestead debunks the hard and fast distinction between Northern and Southern readerships as an invention of historians and critics rather than an accurate reflection of reading practices of the period. ". Very Good .
Keywords: Modern Fiction Augusta Evans Wilson Stuart Travis Southern Fiction The Confederacy Victorian Fiction Modern Fiction
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 34599
- Book number: 34599
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