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Well-Nigh Reconstructed: A Political Novel (Appalachian Echoes)
Brinsley Matthews
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Paperback. Series: Appalachian Echoes. Num Pages: 279 pages. BIC Classification: FHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 318.
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 novels that would culminate near the turn of the twentieth century with Thomas Nelson Page's Red Rock ... Read more
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 novels that would culminate near the turn of the twentieth century with Thomas Nelson Page's Red Rock ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Condition
New
Series
Appalachian Echoes
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781572337213
SKU
V9781572337213
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