Memory and Myth
Subtitle: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cold mountain
By: edited by David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, and Roy Morris Jr.
Contributors: Sachsman, David B.; Rushing, S. Kittrell.; Morris, Roy.
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781557534392; 9781557534408
Subjects: American fiction -- History and criticism; Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism; War films -- United States -- History and criticism; Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism; War and literature -- United States -- History; War in literature; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Motion pictures and the war; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence
Description: "Ain't nobody clean" : Glory! and the politics of black agency / W. Scott Poole -- Alex Haley's Roots : the fiction of fact / William E. Huntzicker -- A voice of the south : the transformation of Shelby Foote / David W. Bulla.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "This inherited misfortune": gender, race, and slavery in Uncle Tom's cabin and Gone with the wing / William E. Huntzicker; title: Beyond Uncle Tom's cabin / Lloyd Chiasson; title: The terror of Poe: slavery, the southern gentleman, and the status quo / Eve Dunbar; title: John Brown: the many faces of a nineteenth-century martyr / Bernell E. Tripp; title: The fugitive imagination: Robert Penn Warren's John Brown / Robert Blakeslee Gilpin; title: The search for community and justice: Robert Penn Warren, race relations, and the Civil War / Edward J. Blum, Sarah Hardin Blum; title: Between fiction and fact: Ben Wood, Fort Lafayette, and civil war America / Menahem Blondheim; title: William Gilmore Simms: a literary casualty of the Civil War / Phebe Davidson, Debra Reddin van Tuyll; title: Henry Adam's Civil War: despair and Democracy / W. Scott Poole; title: "So many, many needless dead": the Civil War witness of Ambrose Bierce / Roy Morris; title: Of saints and sinners: religion and the Civil War and reconstruction novel / Edward J. Blum; title: On whose responsibility? the historical and literary underpinnings of The red badge of courage / Roy Morris; title: A muckraker and Manassas: Upton Sinclair's Civil War fiction / Jessica A. Dorman; title: Narrative art and modernist sensibility in the Civil War fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald / Marcia Noe, Fendall Fulton; title: "Let the story tellers invent it all": Col. John S. Mosby in popular literature / Paul Ashdown, Edward Caudill; title: Tap roots and the free state of Jones / Nancy Dupont; title: "Savage satori": fact and fiction in Charles Frazier's Cold mountain / Paul Ashdown; title: "History with lightning": the legacy of D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation / Phebe Davidson; title: Hollywood themes and southern myths: an analysis of Gone with the wing / William E. Huntzicker; title: Knights in blue and butternut: television's Civil War / Paul Ashdown; title: History thrice removed: Joshua Chamberlain and Gettysburg / Crompton Burton; title: "Ain't nobody clean": Glory! and the politics of black agency / W. Scott Poole; title: Alex Haley's Roots: the fiction of fact / William E. Huntzicker; title: A voice of the south: the transformation of Shelby Foote / David W. Bulla