Word: scalawagging
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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...modern nation-state. Scarlett begins in 1873, during the late Reconstruction. It is not a romantic period. The first half of the novel finds America's original Material Girl, now 30, shopping and socializing in Atlanta, Savannah and Charleston, where she bumps into Rhett Butler, a wealthy scalawag. She still wants what she cannot have: him. He still plays the can't-live-with-'em, can't-live-without-'em game. Following a sailing mishap, they make impetuous love on a beach. He lowers his mizzen and rejects her once again. She soon discovers she is pregnant and goes...