Gone with the Wind (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Mitchell
- First Published: 1936
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1861-1873
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, War fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Self-discovery, Suffering, Love or romance, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Marriage, Poverty or poor people, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Plantations or plantation life, Civil War, Farms, farmers, or farming, Upper classes, Death or dying, Greed, Reconstruction, Ambition, Stereotypes
- Locales: South (U.S.), Atlanta, GA
Places Discussed
*The South. Southern region of the United States. Most of the characters of Margaret Mitchell’s novel see the “South” as encompassing the states between the Lower Mississippi River on the west to the Atlantic Ocean on the east, from Tennessee on the north to the Gulf of Mexico and Florida to the south. However, the novel’s central characters—with the exception of Rhett Butler—have a narrower view of the South, which they see as encompassing the region between their part of Georgia, east to Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia. To...
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