| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 432 pages) : illustrations, portraits. |
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text file |
| Series |
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 378
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Dictionary of literary biography complete online
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 378.
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Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
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| Note |
"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This volume examines the literary fascination with the American Civil War, which seems to have only intensified in the last fifty years. It includes entries on a variety of authors and approaches, ranging from well-known novelists who have explored major issues, both regarding the nature of human beings and war, to largely forgotten writers who used the war mainly as a setting for adventure. |
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Beginnings ; "A dreg of the great ebbing tide" / Rebecca Harding Davis ; "Without origin or explanation" / Stephen Wright ; "Summoned to Shelton Farm" / Ron Rash ; "At the big house" / Margaret Walker ; "Never yield a piece of property" / Ishmael Reed -- Fort Sumter to Shiloh ; "Fort Sumter has surrendered!" / William Taylor Adams [Oliver Optic] ; "Not an inviting place" / Bernard Cornwell ; "Rich and sweet" / Andrew Lytle ; "Ten thousand of us" / Shelby Foote ; "Crows darting overhead" / Kiana Davenport -- Seven pines to Chancellorsville ; "The man in the basket" / James Lee Burke ; "Forty ambulances are at the door" / Louisa May Alcott ; "An onslaught of redoubtable dragons" / Stephen Crane ; "The siege of Port Hudson" / John William De Forest -- Gettysburg to Sherman's March ; "That July afternoon in 1863" / William Faulkner ; "Fur die freiheit!" / Robert Penn Warren ; "The ground at his feet" / Caroline Gordon ; "On the mantel" / Stark Young ; "Wall, blind man, tree, cart, Road" / Charles Frazier ; "A quarter of a mile of furious slaughter" / Hervey Allen ; "Miles from home" / Margaret Mitchell ; "As black as he was" / Madison Jones ; "A sneaking, no-rules war" / Josephine Humphreys -- After Appomattox ; "Words written down" / E. L. Doctorow ; "A Piece of Needlework" / Marilynne Robinson ; "To Live in the Quick World" / Geraldine Brooks ; "All the Pretty Things" / Gary Paulsen ; "Miles Have I Traveled" / Alice Randall ; "Mr. Brady's Photographs" / Kaye Gibbons -- William Taylor Adams [Oliver Optic] (1822-1897) / M. Tyler Sasser -- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) / Christine Doyle -- Hervey Allen (1889-1949) / Suzanne Kamata -- Geraldine Brooks (1955- ) / Helena Maragou -- James Lee Burke (1936- ) / Brad Klypchak -- Bernard Cornwell (1944- ) / Anthony Scotti -- Stephen Crane (1871-1900) / Steven Olsen-Smith -- Kiana Davenport (1940- ) / Suzanne Kamata -- Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) / Christina Marrocco -- John William De Forest (1826-1906) / Matthew Blackwell -- E. L. Doctorow (1931-2015) / Theodora Tsimpouki -- William Faulkner (1897-1962) / Hans H. Skei -- Shelby Foote (1916-2005) / Wolfgang Hochbruck -- Charles Frazier (1950-) / Joseph Schaub -- Kaye Gibbons (1960- ) / Ruth Collette Hoffman -- Caroline Gordon (1895-1981) / Veronica Makowsky -- Josephine Humphreys (1945- ) / Joan Wylie Hall -- Madison Jones (1925-2012) / Jan Nordby Gretlund -- Andrew Lytle (1902-1995) / Shawn E. Miller -- Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) / Arlene R. Quaratiello -- Gary Paulsen (1939- ) / Amy Cummins -- Alice Randall (1959- ) / Ellen F. Brown -- Ron Rash (1953- ) / James R. Giles -- Ishmael Reed (1938- ) / Janet Z. Marsh -- Marilynne Robinson (1943- ) / Rachel Sykes Margaret Walker (1915-1998) / Seretha D. Williams -- Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) / William Bedford Clark -- Stephen Wright (1946- ) / Paul Gleason -- Stark Young (1881-1963) / Kathryn Seidel. |
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Historical fiction, American -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
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Historical fiction, American. |
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Bio-bibliography.
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Dictionaries.
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Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Authors, American -- Biography. |
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War stories, American -- History and criticism.
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War stories, American. |
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War in literature.
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War in literature. |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war.
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
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Authors, American. |
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War and literature. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1861-1865 |
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Biographies.
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Dictionaries.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Dictionaries.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Bibliographies.
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Bibliographies.
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| Added Author |
Anderson, George Parker, 1957- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Novelists on the American Civil War. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, Cengage Learning, [2016] 9780787696535 (DLC) 2015044441 |
| ISBN |
9780787696535 (electronic book) |
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0787696536 |
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9780787696535 |
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