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- Genre: Novel (Romance) (x)
- Publication date: 1850s (x)
- Subject heading: South Carolina -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction. (x)
- Dedicatee: Joseph Johnson, MD (x)
- Places of publication: New York, NY (x)
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Woodcraft; or, Hawks About the DovecoteRevolutionary History | Novel (Romance) | Redfield | 1854 Written in the “midst of one of the
most productive creative surges in his career,”[1]
Woodcraft; or, Hawks About the Dovecote:
A Story of the South at the Close of the Revolution makes the most serious
and sustained claim as Simms’s masterpiece in the novel form.[2] The fifth novel composed in Simms’s saga of
the American Revolution, it is set during the chaotic close and aftermath of
the war. This makes it the last (eighth)
Revolutionary Romance in terms of chronological action. As the work opens, the
British are evacuating Charleston in December 1782. Then the novel shifts ... |