Download or read book Virginia Life in Fiction (Classic Reprint) written by Jay B. Hubbell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Virginia Life in Fiction When I began this study seven years ago, I hoped to do for my native state, if possible, what Mr. H. S. Krans has so delightfully done for Ireland in his Irish Life in Irish Fiction. I did not foresee that the different nature of my materials would force me to write a very different kind of book. In particular, I failed to see that I should be compelled to devote so much space to historical legends, which are so intimately connected with Virginia fiction that they could not be ignored. I hope no one will think that my comments upon the makers of these legends are malicious. I have come to the conclusion that far too little attention has been paid to the very close connection between American fiction and American social history. In a study of the other backgrounds of American fiction, on which I am now working, I hope to do for other sections what I have done for Virginia. This dissertation was completed over two years ago, and it would have been printed in full and at a much earlier date but for a rascal of a publisher into whose hands I was so unlucky as to fall. For this abstract I have rewritten and expanded my introductory chapter so that it now contains the more important conclusions of a three-hundred-page manuscript. The five other chapters are very briefly epitomized, but the bibliography is printed entire. I wish to express my appreciation of the courtesy of Dr. H. R. Mcllwaine of the Virginia State Library and of the officials of the New York Public Library and of the libraries of Columbia University and the New York Society. I am deeply indebted to my colleague, Professor John Owen Beaty, for the privilege of reading his forthcoming John Esten Cooke: Virginian and for other information concerning Cooke's life and work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.