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Author Isaac, Rhys.

Title Landon Carter's uneasy kingdom : revolution and rebellion on a Virginia plantation / Rhys Isaac.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  975.52302 C246Bi 2004    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xxii, 423 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Argument -- First words -- Dramatis personae: Carters and the Beales -- Sabine Hall--1770s staff of the dual household -- Revolution in house and home: Morning of revolution -- Egypt of this exodus -- "All for love" -- Enlightenment calm: Plantation pastoral -- Landon's library -- Plantation medial science -- Politics, war, and rebellion: Landon, legislator -- Rebellions begin -- Troubled old regime: Master and slaves -- Duties betrayed -- Contests at home -- King Lear into the storm: Primal rebellions -- Landon and Nassaw -- Toward death.
Summary Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this astonishingly rich biography, Rhys Isaac mines this remarkable document--and many other sources--to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging patriarch, though a fierce supporter of American liberty, was deeply troubled by the rebellion and its threat to established order. His diary, originally a record of plantation business, began to fill with angry stories of revolt in his own little kingdom. Carter writes at white heat, his words sputtering from his pen as he documents the terrible rupture that the Revolution meant to him. Indeed, Carter felt in his heart he was chronicling a world in decline, the passing of the order that his revered father had bequeathed to him. Not only had Landon's king betrayed his subjects, but Landon's own household betrayed him: his son showed insolent defiance, his daughter Judith eloped with a forbidden suitor, all of his slaves conspired constantly, and eight of them made an armed exodus to freedom. The seismic upheaval he helped to start had crumbled the foundations of Carter's own home. Like Laurel Ulrich in her classic A Midwife's Tale, Rhys Isaac here unfolds not just the life, but the mental world of our countrymen in a long-distant time. Moreover, in this presentation of Landon Carter's passionate narratives, the diarist becomes an arresting new character in the world's literature, a figure of Shakespearean proportions, the Lear of his own tragic kingdom. This long-awaited work will be seen both as a major contribution to Revolution history and a triumph of the art of biography. In this long-awaited work, Isaac mines the diary of a Revolutionary War-era Virginia planter--and many other sources--to reconstruct his interior world as it plunged into turmoil.
Subject Carter, Landon, 1710-1778.
Carter, Landon, 1710-1778 -- Diaries.
Sabine Hall (Richmond County, Va.)
Carter, Landon, 1710-1778 (OCoLC)fst00228934
Sabine Hall (Richmond County, Va.) (OCoLC)fst00698500
American Revolution (1775-1783) (OCoLC)fst01351668
Plantation owners -- Virginia -- Biography.
Gentry -- Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
Plantation life -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century.
Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1783.
Virginia -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects.
Gentry -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst00940304
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Plantation life. (OCoLC)fst01065779
Plantation owners. (OCoLC)fst01065786
Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Virginia. (OCoLC)fst01204597
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Diaries. (OCoLC)fst01423794
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0195159268 (acid-free paper)
9780195159264 (acid-free paper)
0195189086
9780195189087

 
    
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