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Author:

Mitchell, Douglas L., 1968-

Title:

A disturbing and alien memory : southern novelists writing history / Douglas L. Mitchell.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

264 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism.
Authors, American--Southern States--History.--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-253) and index.

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.

Series:

Southern literary studies

ISBN:

0807133736 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807133736 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008019090

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)