The publishing history of Augusta Jane Evans's confederate novel Macaria: unwriting some lost cause myths.(Critical essay)

The Mississippi Quarterly | June 22, 2005| | Copyright

IN HIS 1884 MEMOIR FIFTY YEARS AMONG AUTHORS, BOOKS AND Publishers, New York publisher J. C. Derby, who had published Augusta Jane Evans's second novel, Beulah, in 1859, gives an account of the publishing history of Evans's third novel, Macaria. Both the facts he recounts and his interpretation of those facts have been taken as largely accurate, appearing repeatedly in scholarly analyses of Evans's life and works. (1) Because this essay argues that Derby's account is a romanticized, factually inaccurate account of wartime events from a post-Reconstruction perspective, I begin ...

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