Georgia Scenes (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
- First Published: 1835
- Type of Work: Short stories and sketches
- Type of Plot: Social history
- Time of Work: 1780-1830
- Setting: Georgia
- Genres: Short fiction, Historical fiction, Sketch
- Subjects: African Americans, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Rural or country life, Eighteenth century, Human behavior, Horses, Satire, Animals
- Locales: Georgia
Critical Evaluation:
It was an auspicious moment for American literature when the presses of the AUGUSTA STATE RIGHTS SENTINEL issued a collection of pieces that had appeared in that newspaper, for this book, born in obscurity, was GEORGIA SCENES, CHARACTERS, INCIDENTS, &C., IN THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE REPUBLIC by “A Native Georgian.” The author was not a professional man of letters but rather one of those wonderfully versatile gentlemen who flourished in nineteenth century America. Lawyer, judge, politician, Methodist minister, newspaper...
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