Introduction: Owning up to citizenship -- Constance Fenimore Woolson and the tourist outback of Florida -- Sewing on the badges of servitude: Albion Tourge V. North Carolina -- A divided river town: African American education, Storer College and the pioneer press of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia -- George washington Cable and the wages of ventriloquized peformance in New Orleans, Louisiana -- Iowa's American gothic in Arkansas: the plantation fiction of octave thanet -- Conclusion: The stange career of reconstruction writing
Summary
After the Civil War, the south was divided into five military districts occupied by Union forces. Out of these regions, a remarkable group of writers emerged. Experiencing the long-lasting ramifications of Reconstruction firsthand, many of these writers sought to translate the era's promise into practice. Sharon D. Kennedy-Nolle blends literary history with archival research to assess the significance of Reconstruction literature as a genre
