TY - BOOK AU - Mitchell,Douglas L. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - A disturbing and alien memory: southern novelists writing history AV - PS261 .M48 2008eb U1 - 813.009/358 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Baton Rouge PB - Louisiana State University Press KW - American fiction KW - Southern States KW - History and criticism KW - Authors, American KW - Knowledge KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - History in literature KW - Intellectual life KW - 1865- KW - In literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10271946 ER -