The Sins Of The Father

by Dixon, Thomas; Weisenburger, Steven

• ISBN13: 9780813191171
• ISBN10: 0813191173
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-17
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

" Today, Thomas Dixon is perhaps best known as the author of the best-selling early twentieth-century trilogy that included the novel The Clansman (1905), which provided the core narrative for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and still-controversial film The Birth of a Nation. It was The Sins of the Father, however, that Dixon regarded as the most aesthetically satisfying child of his Ku Klux Klan saga. In this novel he telescopes the trilogy's sprawling historical canvas into one tightly scripted narrative. A best-seller in 1912, the novel's themes of interracial sex and incest outraged many upon its publication. Nearly a century later, Dixon's work is undergoing a critical reevaluation. A new introduction by Steven Weisenburger lends a valuable historical and critical perspective to this important and divisive classic of American literature. Thomas Dixon (1864-1946) was born in Shelby, North Carolina. He is also the author of The Clansman and The Flaming Sword. Steven Weisenburger, Mossiker Chair in Humanities at Southern Methodist University, is the author of several books, including Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child- murder from the Old South.

Author Biography

Steven Weisenburger is Mossiker Chair in Humanities at Southern Methodist University

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
A Note on the Text	xxxi
Book One: Sin
The Woman in Yellow	3	(15)
Cleo Enters	18	(9)
A Beast Awakes	27	(5)
The Arrest	32	(8)
The Rescue	40	(9)
A Traitor's Ruse	49	(5)
The Irony of Fate	54	(5)
A New Weapon	59	(6)
The Words That Cost	65	(3)
Man to Man	68	(7)
The Unbidden Guest	75	(5)
The Judgment Bar	80	(9)
An Old Story	89	(6)
The Fight for Life	95	(3)
Cleo's Silence	98	(2)
The Larger Vision	100	(8)
The Opal Gates	108	(4)
Questions	112	(5)
Cleo's Cry	117	(3)
The Blow Falls	120	(5)
The Call of the Blood	125	(10)
Book Two: Atonement
The New Life Purpose	135	(3)
A Modern Scalawag	138	(8)
His House in Order	146	(4)
The Man of the Hour	150	(3)
A Woman Scorned	153	(8)
An Old Comedy	161	(8)
Trapped	169	(8)
Behind the Bars	177	(2)
Andy's Dilemma	179	(11)
The Best Laid Plans	190	(4)
A Reconnoitre	194	(7)
The First Whisper	201	(4)
Andy's Proposal	205	(5)
The Folly of Pity	210	(8)
A Discovery	218	(7)
The Challenge	225	(5)
A Skirmish	230	(3)
Love Laughs	233	(4)
``Fight it Out!''	237	(6)
Andy Fights	243	(7)
The Second Blow	250	(5)
The Test of Love	255	(10)
The Parting	265	(8)
Father and Son	273	(10)
The One Chance	283	(4)
Between Two Fires	287	(3)
A Surprise	290	(4)
Via Dolorosa	294	(7)
The Dregs in the Cup	301	(7)
The Mills of God	308	(4)
Sin Full Grown	312	(2)
Confession	314	(3)
Healing	317