Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Novels from the Civil War Period (1861–1865)
Introduction
Chapter 1: Augusta Jane Evans’s Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice
Chapter 2: Sallie Rochester Ford’s Raids and Romance of Morgan and His Men
Part 2. Novels from Reconstruction (1865–1877)
Introduction
Chapter 3: Marion Harland’s Sunnybank
Chapter 4: Mary Anne Cruse’s Cameron Hall: A Story of the Civil War
Chapter 5: Rebecca Harding Davis’s Waiting for the Verdict
Part 3. Novels from the “Redeemed” South and the Turn of the Century (1877–1914)
Introduction
Chapter 6: Mary Noailles Murfree’s Where the Battle Was Fought and The Storm Centre
Chapter 7: Ellen Glasgow’s The Battle-Ground
Chapter 8: Mary Johnston’s The Long Roll and Cease Firing
Part 4. Novels from the Modern Period (1914–1945)
Introduction
Chapter 9: Evelyn Scott’s The Wave
Chapter 10: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind
Chapter 11: Caroline Gordon’s None Shall Look Back
Part 5. Novels since World War II (1945–present)
Introduction
Chapter 12: Margaret Walker’s Jubilee
Chapter 13: Kaye Gibbons’s On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Chapter 14: Josephine Humphreys’s Nowhere Else on Earth
Chapter 15: Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone
Notes
Works Cited
Index