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Rebecca Harding Davis's Stories of the Civil War Era - Selected Writings from the Borderlands (Hardcover, New)
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Rebecca Harding Davis's Stories of the Civil War Era - Selected Writings from the Borderlands (Hardcover, New)
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This is the first anthology of Davis' civil war-era work. The ten
stories gathered here show Rebecca Harding Davis to be an acute
observer of the conflicts and ambiguities of a divided nation and
position her as a major transitional writer between romanticism and
realism. Capturing the fluctuating cultural environment of the
Civil War and Reconstruction eras, the stories explore such issues
as racial prejudice and slavery, the loneliness and powerlessness
of women, and the effects of postwar market capitalism on the
working classes. Davis' characters include soldiers and civilians,
men and women, young and old, black and white. Instead of focusing
(like many writers of the period) on major conflicts and leaders,
Davis takes readers into the intimate battles fought on family
farms and backwoods roads, delving into the minds of those who
experienced the destruction on both sides of the conflict. Davis
spent the war years in the Pennsylvania and Virginia borderlands, a
region she called a 'vast armed camp'. Here, divided families,
ravaged communities, and shifting loyalties were the norm. As the
editors say, 'Davis does not limit herself to writing about
slavery, abolition, or reconstruction. Instead, she shows us that
through the fighting, the rebuilding, and the politics, life goes
on. Even during a war, people must live: they work, eat, sleep, and
love'.
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