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A disturbing and alien memory southern novelists writing history /

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Main Author: Mitchell, Douglas L., 1968-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.
Subjects:
American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism.
Authors, American > Southern States > Knowledge > History.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
History in literature.
Southern States > Intellectual life > 1865-
Southern States > In literature.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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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