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Memory and myth : the Civil War in fiction and film from Uncle Tom's cabin to Cold mountain / edited by David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, Roy Morris, Jr.
- Title
- Memory and myth : the Civil War in fiction and film from Uncle Tom's cabin to Cold mountain / edited by David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, Roy Morris, Jr.
- Publication
- West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2007.
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- Description
- xiii, 307 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Subjects
- History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- War in literature
- War and literature > United States > History
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence
- Historical films > United States > History and criticism
- War films > United States > History and criticism
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Motion pictures and the war
- Historical fiction, American > History and criticism
- American fiction > History and criticism
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literature and the war
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781557534392 (casebound : alk. paper)
- 155753439X (casebound : alk. paper)
- 9781557534408 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1557534403 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2006100291
- OCLC
- 76871662
- SCSB-11895093
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library