{"product_id":"swallow-barn-or-a-sojourn-in-the-old-dominion-paperback","title":"Swallow Barn; Or, a Sojourn in the Old Dominion - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Pendleton Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLucinda Hardwick Mackethan\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1832 and revised in 1851, \u003ci\u003eSwallow Barn\u003c\/i\u003e, John Pendleton Kennedy's novel of antebellum life on a tidewater Virginia plantation, was described by its author as \"variously and interchangeably partaking of the complexion of a book of travels, a diary, a collection of letters, a drama, and a history.\" \u003ci\u003eSwallow Barn\u003c\/i\u003e has returned from oblivion many times in the past 150 years, in part because it resists categorization and retains its originality. It is a novel that is not a novel, written by a man who was and was not a southerner or even, by his own reckoning, a writer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSwallow Barn \u003c\/i\u003ebegan as a series of letters written by a Mark Littleton (Kennedy) to his hometown neighbor, Zachary Huddlestone of Preston Ridge, New York. Littleton, visiting his Virginia relatives at their farm called Swallow Barn, on the James River not far from Richmond, told his friend that he would write a \"full, true and particular account of all my doings, or rather my seeings and thinkings\" while he was among his genial relatives. But Kennedy soon dropped the pose of letter writer and devoted successive chapters to sketches of Virginia country life. In choosing to write about the \"manners\" of his own region, he won not only esteem as an American author but recognition for a way of life toward which an open hostility was developing in the North. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLucinda MacKethan's introduction to this edition considers biographical information and the cultural and literary forces that operated to make \u003ci\u003eSwallow Barn\u003c\/i\u003e a unique as well as a representative product of its period. MacKethan also discusses Kennedy's design for the novel, the ideological and artistic strategies that governed the choices and changes he made as he created what is now regarded as one of the most important fictional portrayals of plantation society by one intimately involved in that place and time.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucinda H. MacKethan is professor of English at North Carolina State University at Raleigh. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of Arcady: Place and Time in Southern Literature. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 506\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 8.47 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 1986\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52522077061427,"sku":"9780807113226","price":55.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/NjdmeTdrL3R2SnJVSGwyQldWaWxOUT09.webp?v=1760543670","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/swallow-barn-or-a-sojourn-in-the-old-dominion-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}