America's Imagined Revolution: The Historical Novel of Reconstruction - Hardcoverby Tomos Wallbank Hughes (Author), Scott Romine (Editor) America's Imagined Revolution explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not) been theorized as revolution. Reading historical fiction by authors such as George Washington Cable, Albion Tourge, Charles Chesnutt, Frances Harper, and W. E. B. Du Bois in dialogue with nineteenth