Willis Carr at Bleak House (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: David Madden
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: March 21, 1928, with flashbacks to 1860-1867
- Setting: Knoxville and Holston Mountain, Tennessee; various sites in Virginia; and out west
- Principal Characters: Willis Carr, General James Longstreet, William Price Sanders
- Genres: Short fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Memory, Civil War, Soldiers
- Locales: Virginia, Knoxville, TN
The Story
David Madden sets Willis Carr's stories about his experiences as a soldier during the American Civil War within the framework of a meeting of the Knoxville chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy on March 21, 1928. Indeed, the entire story takes the form of the report of the organization's secretary. Introduced by Professor Jeffrey Arnow, a member of the history department at the University of Tennessee, Carr tells the women gathered in the music room at Bleak House what he remembers about the siege of Knoxville (in November and December of 1863), part of which he...
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