The battle-ground

Glasgow, Ellen 1873-1945 (Author). United States Civil War Center. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780817388294
ISBN: 081738829X
ISBN: 9780585340982
ISBN: 0585340986
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxviii, 512 pages) : illustrations
remote
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Published in cooperation with the United States Civil War Center." Originally published: New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.