Description |
xiii, 307 pages ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
"This inherited misfortune": gender, race, and slavery in Uncle Tom's cabin and Gone with the wing / William E. Huntzicker -- Beyond Uncle Tom's cabin / Lloyd Chiasson -- The terror of Poe: slavery, the southern gentleman, and the status quo / Eve Dunbar -- John Brown: the many faces of a nineteenth-century martyr / Bernell E. Tripp -- The fugitive imagination: Robert Penn Warren's John Brown / Robert Blakeslee Gilpin -- The search for community and justice: Robert Penn Warren, race relations, and the Civil War / Edward J. Blum, Sarah Hardin Blum -- Between fiction and fact: Ben Wood, Fort Lafayette, and civil war America / Menahem Blondheim -- William Gilmore Simms: a literary casualty of the Civil War / Phebe Davidson, Debra Reddin van Tuyll -- Henry Adam's Civil War: despair and Democracy / W. Scott Poole -- "So many, many needless dead": the Civil War witness of Ambrose Bierce / Roy Morris -- Of saints and sinners: religion and the Civil War and reconstruction novel / Edward J. Blum -- On whose responsibility? the historical and literary underpinnings of The red badge of courage / Roy Morris -- A muckraker and Manassas: Upton Sinclair's Civil War fiction / Jessica A. Dorman -- Narrative art and modernist sensibility in the Civil War fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald / Marcia Noe, Fendall Fulton -- "Let the story tellers invent it all": Col. John S. Mosby in popular literature / Paul Ashdown, Edward Caudill -- Tap roots and the free state of Jones / Nancy Dupont -- "Savage satori": fact and fiction in Charles Frazier's Cold mountain / Paul Ashdown -- "History with lightning": the legacy of D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation / Phebe Davidson -- Hollywood themes and southern myths: an analysis of Gone with the wing / William E. Huntzicker -- Knights in blue and butternut: television's Civil War / Paul Ashdown -- History thrice removed: Joshua Chamberlain and Gettysburg / Crompton Burton -- "Ain't nobody clean": Glory! and the politics of black agency / W. Scott Poole -- Alex Haley's Roots: the fiction of fact / William E. Huntzicker -- A voice of the south: the transformation of Shelby Foote / David W. Bulla. |
Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war.
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American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Historical fiction, American. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Motion pictures and the war.
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War films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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War films. |
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United States. |
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Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Historical films. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
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War and literature -- United States -- History.
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War and literature. |
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History. |
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War in literature.
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War in literature. |
Added Author |
Sachsman, David B.
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Rushing, S. Kittrell.
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Morris, Roy, Jr.
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ISBN |
9781557534408 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781557534392 casebound alkaline paper |
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155753439X casebound alkaline paper |
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1557534403 paperback alkaline paper |
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