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

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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
Subjects:	Reconstruction Slavery American literature Revolution Historical novel
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/59485/

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