Witness to Reconstruction : Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894 / edited by Kathleen Diffley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diffley, Kathleen Elizabeth, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894--Criticism and interpretation.

Woolson, Constance Fenimore.

Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894--Travel--Southern States.

Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894.

Travel.

Criticism and interpretation.

Southern States.

Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, American.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) in literature.

Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877) in literature.

Southern States--In literature.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Physical Description:

ix, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2011]

Contents:

"People who remember": the American South and Woolson's postbellum sojourns / Kathleen Diffley

"This reserve of the North": Reconstruction at home. The balances of deceit; or, what does silver mean to me?: Woolson's "Castle nowhere" and the money question during Reconstruction / Michael Germana

"The daughters of Carolina": the South beckons Constance Fenimore Woolson and the origins of the global South / John Lowe

Tourism, imperialism, and hybridity in the Reconstruction South: Woolson's Rodman the keeper: southern sketches / Anne E. Boyd

Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and the fashioning of southern identity / John H. Pearson

Woolson's two women: 1862 : a Civil War romance of irreconcilable difference / Caroline Gebhard

Zephaniah Swift Spalding: Constance Woolson's Cipher / Cheryl B. Torsney

"A shady retreat": short prose geology and genre in Woolson's southern travel sketches / Timothy Sweet

Reconstructing southern hospitality / Anthony Szczesiul

Imagining sites of memory in the post Civil War South: the national cemetery in Woolson's "Rodman the keeper" / Martin T. Buinicki

Poking King David in his imperial eye/"I": Woolson takes on the white man's burden in the postbellum United States / Carolyn Hall

Cypresses, chameleons, and snakes: displacement in Woolson's "The South devil" / Kathleen Diffley

"Burned into us by a red-hot fire": novels of the South. The portrait of a southern lady in Woolson's For the major / Janet Gabler-Hover

Northeast angels: Henry James in Woolson's Florida / Geraldine Murphy

The merits of transit: Woolson's return to Reconstruction in Jupiter lights / Sharon Kennedy-Nolle

"Pioneers of spoliation": Woolson's Horace Chase and the role of magazine writing in the Gilded-Age development of the South / Kevin E. O'Donnell

"Shimmering inlets": remembering back, looking forward. "A modern and a model pioneer": civilizing the frontier in Woolson's "A pink villa" / Annamaria Formichella Elsden.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781617030253

1617030252

9781617030260

1617030260

OCLC:

679919064