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- Publication date: 1850s (x)
- Time period: Antebellum Period (x)
- Artist: F.O.C. Darley (x)
- Setting: Texas (x)
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- Novel (Romance) (1)
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Confession; or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic StoryNovel (Romance) | Redfield | 1856 Building
out of his early experiences with writing in the psychological gothic mode in
such texts as Martin Faber (1833) and
Carl Werner (1838) and anticipating
his later work Castle Dismal (1844), William
Gilmore Simms published Confesssion; or, The Blind Heart in 1841. Coming at the front of what many consider to
be the author’s most productive period, this novel is the extended confession
of Edward Clifford who is orphaned at a young age and sent to be reared by his
aunt and uncle in Charleston. Rising
above his foster parents’ scorn, Clifford becomes a lawyer, a prominent
citizen, ... |