A disturbing and alien memory
Mitchell, Douglas L., 1968-
A disturbing and alien memory southern novelists writing history / [electronic resource] : Douglas L. Mitchell. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008. - 264 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-253) and index.
"Memory enough for the best and bravest of us all": William Gilmore Simms and the failure of romantic history -- "It will be as I now remember it": Thomas Nelson Page and the old south -- "The exasperated genius of Africa": William Wells Brown and African American history -- "A disturbing and alien memory": Allen Tate, modernism, and the use of the past -- "History is blind, but man is not": Robert Penn Warren and the rebuke of the past -- "The conflict is behind me now": Shelby Foote writes the Civil War.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American fiction--History and criticism.--Southern States
Authors, American--Knowledge--History.--Southern States
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
History in literature.
Southern States--Intellectual life--1865-
Southern States--In literature.
Electronic books.
PS261 / .M48 2008eb
813.009/358
A disturbing and alien memory southern novelists writing history / [electronic resource] : Douglas L. Mitchell. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008. - 264 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-253) and index.
"Memory enough for the best and bravest of us all": William Gilmore Simms and the failure of romantic history -- "It will be as I now remember it": Thomas Nelson Page and the old south -- "The exasperated genius of Africa": William Wells Brown and African American history -- "A disturbing and alien memory": Allen Tate, modernism, and the use of the past -- "History is blind, but man is not": Robert Penn Warren and the rebuke of the past -- "The conflict is behind me now": Shelby Foote writes the Civil War.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American fiction--History and criticism.--Southern States
Authors, American--Knowledge--History.--Southern States
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
History in literature.
Southern States--Intellectual life--1865-
Southern States--In literature.
Electronic books.
PS261 / .M48 2008eb
813.009/358