The battle-ground / Ellen Glasgow ; introduction by Susan Goodman.

By:

Glasgow, Ellen, 1873-1945

Contributor(s):

United States Civil War Center

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Classics of Civil War fictionPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: 1 online resource (xxxviii, 512 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585340986
9780585340982
081738829X
9780817388294

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Battle-ground.DDC classification:

813/.52 21

LOC classification:

PS3513.L34 B36 2000eb

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Contents:

Introduction; Contents; Book First: Golden Years; I. De Hine Foot er a He Frawg -- II. At the Full of the Moon; III. The Coming of the Boy; IV. A House with an Open Door; V. The School for Gentlemen; VI. CoIlege Days; Book Second: Young Blood; I. The Major's Christmas; II. Betty dreams by the Fire; III. Dan and Betty; IV. Love in a Maze; V. The Major loses his Temper; VI. The Meeting in the Turnpike; VII. If this be Love; VIII. Betty's Unbelief; IX. The Montjoy Blood; X. The Road at Midnight; XI. At Merry Oaks Tavern; XII. The Night of Fear; XIII. Crabbed Age and Callow Youth.

XIV. The Hush before the StormBook Third: The School of War; I. How Merry Gentlemen went to War; II. The Day's March; III. The Reign of the Brute; IV. After the Battle; V. The Woman's Part; VI. On the Road to Romney; VII. I wait my Time -- VIII. The Altar of the War God; IX. The Montjoy Blood again; Book Fourth: The Return of the Vanquished; I. The Ragged Army; II. A Straggler from the Ranks; III. The Cabin in the Woods; IV. In the Silence of the Guns; V. The Place Thereof -- VI. The Peaceful Side of War; VII. The Silent Battle; VIII. The Last Stand; IX. In the Hour of Defeat.

Summary: The Battle-Ground, Ellen Glasgow's fourth novel, was her first bestseller, with more than 21,000 copies sold in just two weeks. The novel committed her to a project almost unparalleled in American literary history: a novelistic meditation on the South from the decade before the Confederacy to the middle of the 20th century. The Battle-Ground speaks of a South before and during the Civil War in its struggles to become part of a nation still in the making. The overthrow of the aristocratic tradition, the transfer of hereditary power to a rural underclass, the continued disenfran.

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"Published in cooperation with the United States Civil War Center."

Originally published: New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902.

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The Battle-Ground, Ellen Glasgow's fourth novel, was her first bestseller, with more than 21,000 copies sold in just two weeks. The novel committed her to a project almost unparalleled in American literary history: a novelistic meditation on the South from the decade before the Confederacy to the middle of the 20th century. The Battle-Ground speaks of a South before and during the Civil War in its struggles to become part of a nation still in the making. The overthrow of the aristocratic tradition, the transfer of hereditary power to a rural underclass, the continued disenfran.

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