Shelby Foote and the art of history
Subtitle: two gates to the city
By: James Panabaker.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Foote, Shelby -- Criticism and interpretation.; Foote, Shelby -- Knowledge -- Southern States.; Foote, Shelby -- Knowledge -- History.; Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Literature and history -- Southern States.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Historiography.; Southern States -- Historiography.; Southern States -- In literature.
Description: "Despite widespread recognition of Foote's work, reception by some in the scholarly community has been lukewarm; historians dismiss his lively narratives as literary, while literary critics tend to view his exhaustively researched works as historical. In Shelby Foote and the Art of History: Two Gates to the City, James Panabaker argues that Foote is one of a rare breed of artists, capable of combining the tools and sensibilities of a writer of modernist fiction with the discipline of a historian."

"Panabaker examines several key influences on Foote's development as a writer and historian, from his upbringing in the progressive southern town of Greenville, Mississippi, and his relationship with William Alexander Percy to the inescapable shadow of Faulkner."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliogrpahical references (p. 227-231) and index.