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Well-Nigh Reconstructed A Political Novel
Mōnon ou, or, Well-nigh reconstructed
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n 1882 William Simpson Pearson, writing under the pseudonym Brinsley Matthews, published Well-Nigh Reconstructed, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel excoriating the enormous societal changes...
n 1882 William Simpson Pearson, writing under the pseudonym Brinsley Matthews, published Well-Nigh Reconstructed, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel excoriating the enormous societal changes that had beset the former Confederacy during Reconstruction. Pearson's work was especially notable in that the author was a onetime Radical Republican and supporter of Ulysses S. Grant's bid for the presidency.Echoing Pearson's own disillusionment with the Radical Republicans, the novel's protagonist, Archie Moran, comes to see Radical Reconstruction as an attempt to turn the South into
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- [by Brinsley Matthews] ; edited with an introduction by Paul D. Yandle
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- English
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- 1st ed
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2010
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- ©2010
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- 1 online resource (356 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9786613098535, 9781572337374, 1572337370, 1572337214, 9781572337213, 1283098539
- OCLC
- ocn707068787
- Originally published: Mōnon ou, or, Well-nigh reconstructed : a political novel by Brinsley Matthews [William S. Pearson]. New York : E. J. Hale & son, 1882.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English
- 978-1-57233-721-3-text.pdf; 1. Introduced to You; 2. A Rule of War Unknown to Grotius; 3. A Letter from Home, and a Good-Bye to Brookwood; 4. The Serpent Enters; 5. A Moonshiner and Some of His Opinions; 6. The Fruit of the Before-Mentioned Opinions; 7. In Which a Stranger Presents Himself Who Will after Awhile Be Better Known; 8. Reconstruction Justice; 9. The Spoilers of the Canaanites; 10. A Gentlemanly K. K.; 11. K. K. That Were Not Gentlemen; 12. That the Meat of a Lady's Letter Is in the Post-Script; 13. A Little of Love and More of Loyalty; 14. A Very Young Man's Letter
- 15. About Many Things, None of Which Very Much Affect the Story16. The Weightiest of Reminders; 17. A Prelude of Nonsense Followed by the Swamp of a Life-Boat; 18. Ravenscroft under a Cloud; 19. The Cloud Blackens and Bursts; 20. A Court Organized to Convict; 21. Conviction without a Court; 22. Conjunctive Treason to Cornelia; 23. En Route; 24. A Letter from Archibald Moran to Robert Cleburne; 25. From the Same to the Same; 26. A Couple of Ca-Sa's; 27. Tit for Tat; 28. New Friends; 29. Faithful unto Death; 30. A Sweeter South; 31. The European Episode Ends; 32. The Fatted Calf
- 33. Hands All 'Round