America's Imagined Revolution: The Historical N. Wallbank-Hughes, Romine**

Louisiana State University Press

America's Imagined RevolutionThe Historical Novel of Reconstruction\nAuthor(s): Tomos Wallbank-Hughes, Scott Romine\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Louisiana State University Press, United States\nImprint: Louisiana State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780807181546, 978-0807181546\nSynopsis\nAmerica's Imagined Revolution explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not) been theorized as revolution. Reading historical fiction by authors such as George Washington Cable, Albion Tourge, Charles Chesnutt, Frances Harper, and W. E. B. Du Bois in dialogue with nineteenth-century historical writingand the era's legal, political, and print cultureTomos Wallbank-Hughes excavates an evanescent form of historicist writing sensitive to the revolutionary changes that shaped life in the emancipation-era South.\n\nAs an aesthetic form, the historical novel of Reconstruction poses quest.