A disturbing and alien memory [electronic resource] : southern novelists writing history / Douglas L. Mitchell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.Description: 264 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.009/358 22
LOC classification:
  • PS261 .M48 2008eb
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Contents:
"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.
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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.

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