| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 279 pages) |
| Series |
Appalachian echoes |
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Appalachian echoes.
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| Contents |
1. Introduced to You -- 2. A Rule of War Unknown to Grotius -- 3. A Letter from Home, and a Good-Bye to Brookwood -- 4. The Serpent Enters -- 5. A Moonshiner and Some of His Opinions -- 6. The Fruit of the Before-Mentioned Opinions -- 7. In Which a Stranger Presents Himself Who Will after Awhile Be Better Known -- 8. Reconstruction Justice -- 9. The Spoilers of the Canaanites -- 10. A Gentlemanly K.K. -- 11. K.K. That Were Not Gentlemen -- 12. That the Meat of a Lady's Letter Is in the Post-Script -- 13. A Little of Love and More of Loyalty -- 14. A Very Young Man's Letter -- 15. About Many Things, None of Which Very Much Affect the Story -- 16. The Weightiest of Reminders -- 17. A Prelude of Nonsense Followed by the Swamp of a Life-Boat -- 18. Ravenscroft under a Cloud -- 19. The Cloud Blackens and Bursts -- 20. A Court Organized to Convict -- 21. Conviction without a Court -- 22. Conjunctive Treason to Cornelia -- 23. En Route -- 24. A Letter from Archibald Moran to Robert Cleburne -- 25. From the Same to the Same -- 26. A Couple of Ca-Sa's -- 27. Tit for Tat -- 28. New Friends -- 29. Faithful unto Death -- 30. A Sweeter South -- 31. The European Episode Ends -- 32. The Fatted Calf -- 33. Hands All 'Round |
| Summary |
In 1882, William Simpson Pearson, writing under the pseudonym Brinsley Matthews, published Well-Nigh Reconstructed, a thinly disguised. autobiographical novel excoriating the enormous societal changes that had beset the former Confederacy during Reconstruction. Pearson's work was especially notable in that the author was a onetime Radical Republican and supporter of Ulysses S. Grant's bid for the presidency. A product of Pearson's perception that northern Reconstruction policies had devastated his native North Carolina, the book set in motion a genre of politically motivated |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Political fiction.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- North Carolina -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Political fiction
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
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| Subject |
North Carolina
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yandle, Paul D.
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| ISBN |
9781572337374 |
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1572337370 |
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