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1 online resource (xviii, 374 pages) |
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Novel as American social history |
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Novel as American social history.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; INTRODUCTION; TO THE READER; Book I-The Assassination; CHAPTER I THE BRUISED REED; CHAPTER II THE GREAT HEART; CHAPTER III THE MAN OF WAR; CHAPTER IV A CLASH OF GIANTS; CHAPTER V THE BATTLE OF LOVE; CHAPTER VI THE ASSASSINATION; CHAPTER VII THE FRENZY OF A NATION; Book II-The Revolution; CHAPTER I THE FIRST LADY OF THE LAND; CHAPTER II SWEETHEARTS; CHAPTER III THE JOY OF LIVING; CHAPTER IV HIDDEN TREASURE; CHAPTER V ACROSS THE CHASM; CHAPTER VI THE GAUGE OF BATTLE; CHAPTER VII A WOMAN LAUGHS; CHAPTER VIII A DREAM; CHAPTER IX THE KING AMUSES HIMSELF |
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CHAPTER X TOSSED BY THE STORMCHAPTER XI THE SUPREME TEST; CHAPTER XII TRIUMPH IN DEFEAT; Book III-The Reign of Terror; CHAPTER I A FALLEN SLAVEHOLDER'S MANSION; CHAPTER II THE EYES OF THE JUNGLE; CHAPTER III AUGUSTUS CAESAR; CHAPTER IV AT THE POINT OF THE BAYONET; CHAPTER V FORTY ACRES AND A MULE; CHAPTER VI A WHISPER IN THE CROWD; CHAPTER VII BY THE LIGHT OF A TORCH; CHAPTER VIII THE RIOT IN THE MASTER'S HALL; CHAPTER IX AT LOVER'S LEAP; CHAPTER X A NIGHT HAWK; CHAPTER XI THE BEAT OF A SPARROW'S WING; CHAPTER XII AT THE DAWN OF DAY; Book IV-The Ku Klux Klan; CHAPTER I THE HUNT FOR THE ANIMAL |
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CHAPTER II THE FIERY CROSSCHAPTER III THE PARTING OF THE WAYS; CHAPTER IV THE BANNER OF THE DRAGON; CHAPTER V THE REIGN OF THE KLAN; CHAPTER VI THE COUNTER STROKE; CHAPTER VII THE SNARE OF THE FOWLER; CHAPTER VIII A RIDE FOR A LIFE; CHAPTER IX ""VENGEANCE IS MINE"" |
| Summary |
"" The year was 1865. With the close of the Civil War, there began for the South, an era of even greater turmoil. In The Clansman, his controversial 1905 novel, later the basis of the motion picture The Birth of a Nation, Thomas Dixon, describes the social, political, and economic disintegration that plagued the South during Reconstruction, depicting the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the reactions of two families to racial conflict. This study in social history was alternatively praised and damned by contemporary critics. As historian Thomas D. Clark notes in his introduction, the novel ""op |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Online resource; title from pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed Jan. 23, 2014) |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Ku Klux Klan (19th century) -- Fiction
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Ku Klux Klan (19th century) fast |
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Ku-Klux Klan -- Fiction. nli |
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White supremacy movements -- Fiction
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Social problems -- Fiction
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Fiction
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Racism -- Fiction
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FICTION -- Political.
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FICTION -- Historical.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Racism
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Social problems
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White supremacy movements
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18.06 Anglo-American literature.
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South Carolina -- Fiction
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South Carolina
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United States
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Political fiction
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Fiction
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History
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Political fiction
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Historical fiction.
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Political fiction.
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Novels (texts)
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Political fiction.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Clark, Thomas D
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| LC no. |
71104761 |
| ISBN |
9780813145839 |
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081314583X |
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9780813145846 |
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0813145848 |
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0813101263 |
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9780813101262 |
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