Includes bibliographical references and index.

"People who remember" : the American South and Woolson's postbellum sojourns / Kathleen Diffley -- "This reserve of the North" : reconstruction at home: The balances of deceit; or, what does silver mean to me? : Woolson's "Castle nowhere" and the money question during Reconstruction / Michael Germana -- "The daughters of Carolina" : the South beckons: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the origins of the global South / John Lowe ; Tourism, imperialism, and hybridity in the Reconstruction South : Woolson's Rodman the keeper: southern sketches / Anne E. Boyd ; Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and the fashioning of southern identity / John H. Pearson ; Woolson's two women : 1862 : a Civil War romance of irreconcilable difference / Caroline Gebhard -- Zephaniah Swift Spalding : Constance Woolson's Cipher / Cheryl B. Torsney -- "A shady retreat" : short prose: Geology and genre in Woolson's southern travel sketches / Timothy Sweet ; Reconstructing southern hospitality / Anthony Szczesiul ; Imagining sites of memory in the post Civil War South: the national cemetery in Woolson's "Rodman the keeper" / Martin T. Buinicki ; Poking King David in his imperial eye/"I" : Woolson takes on the white man's burden in the postbellum United States / Carolyn Hall ; Cypresses, chameleons, and snakes : displacement in Woolson's "The South devil" / Kathleen Diffley -- "Burned into us by a red-hot fire" : novels of the South: The portrait of a southern lady in Woolson's For the major / Janet Gabler-Hover ; Northeast angels : Henry James in Woolson's Florida / Geraldine Murphy ; The merits of transit : Woolson's return to Reconstruction in Jupiter lights / Sharon Kennedy-Nolle ; "Pioneers of spoliation" : Woolson's Horace Chase and the role of magazine writing in the Gilded-Age development of the South / Kevin E. O'Donnell -- "Shimmering inlets" : remembering back, looking forward: "A modern and a model pioneer" : civilizing the frontier in Woolson's "A pink villa" / Annamaria Formichella Elsden.

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