The Wave (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Elsie Dunn
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Plot: Historical chronicle
- Time of Work: From April 11, 1861, to May 24, 1865
- Setting: All sections of the United States touched by the Civil War; also Portugal and Germany
- Principal Characters: Jefferson Davis, Edwin George, Eugenia Gilbert, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, Civil War, Politicians, Presidents, Germany or German people, Armies, Biography, Portugal or Portuguese people
- Locales: United States, Germany, Portugal
The Novel
Beginning on April 12, 1861, with the firing on Fort Sumter by Confederate forces, and ending with the parade of victorious Union troops in Washington, D.C., on May 24, 1865, the action of Evelyn Scott’s The Wave conforms externally to the events of the American Civil War. On its simplest level, the book is a fictional account of that war; Scott’s real emphasis, however, is on the effect of the war on the hundreds of characters which crowd her novel. The key to her method, and to the thematic point of The Wave, is the book’s epigraph, a statement...
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