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.
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