America's imagined revolution: narrative and politics in the historical novel of Reconstruction

This thesis explores late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novels about Reconstruction in the American South, identifying a sub-genre of the historical novel dedicated to narrating Reconstruction as revolutionary history. Operating at the margins of political and historical fiction, the wri...

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Main Author: Hughes, T.
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/59485/