The Immoderate Past: The Southern Writer and History

by C. Hugh Holman

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The Immoderate Past deals with the southern writer's preoccupation with history, concentrating on representative novelists from three major periods. Finding the origins of this preoccupation in the antebellum period, when most American novelists wrote in the mode of Sir Walter Scott, C. Hugh Holman examines the Revolutionary romances of William Gilmore Simms. With the coming of realism to American fiction after the Civil War, the southern writer...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0820333573

ISBN13:9780820333571

Release Date:November 2008

Publisher:University of Georgia Press

Length:128 Pages

Weight:0.39 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction

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