Macaria: Or, Altars of Sacrifice - Brossura

Evans, Augusta Jane

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ISBN 10: 0807116629 ISBN 13: 9780807116623

Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1992

Riassunto

First published in 1864, Macaria; or, Altars of Sacri?ce was the third novel of Augusta Jane Evans, one of the leading women writers of nineteenth-century domestic ?ction. A wartime best seller, with more than twenty thousand copies in circulation in the print-starved Confederacy before the war’s end, the novel was also extremely well received along the Union front, so much so that some northern of?cials thought it should be banned. Long out of print and largely unavailable until now, Macaria is a compelling narrative about women and war.

In Macaria, Evans charts the journey of two southern women toward ultimate self-realization through their service in the war-torn Confederacy. Discarding the theme of romantic ful?llment, Evans skillfully crafts a novel about women compelled by the departure and death of so many southern men to ?nd meaning in their own “single blessedness,” rather than in marriage.

Drew Gilpin Faust, in her perceptive introduction to this edition, places the novel in the context of the concerns of Confederate nationalism and the contributions of women during the Civil War. She provides an ideological and historical framework within which to interpret the novel and introduce it to a new generation of readers. Largely overlooked in the current revival of women’s ?ction, Augusta Jane Evans is less well known today than she should be. The reissue of this volume will do much to garner Evans a well-deserved place in the existing body of American literature, and especially southern and women’s literature.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Drew Gilpin Faust is Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of several books, including The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South and James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery, for which she received the Charles S. Sydnor Award.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0807116629
• ISBN 13: 9780807116623
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 250
• Redattore: Faust Drew Gilpin
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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