The tangled web of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Subtitle: readings and writings from a novelist's perspective
By: David Madden
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781442243484; 9781442243491
Subjects: History; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; Literature and the war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "The vibration ripples to the remotest perimeter"; title: Part I. Essays; title: For the new millennium, new perspectives on the Civil War and Reconstruction; title: Fletcher Pratt's A short history of the Civil War: ordeal by fire; title: On James McPherson's for cause and comrades: why men fought in the Civil War; title: Classics of Civil War fiction; title: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: Quentin! Listen!; title: Rediscovering a major Civil War novel: Joseph Stanley Pennell's The history of Rome Hanks and Willis Kindred Matters; title: The innocent stare at the Civil War: Madison Jones's Nashville 1863, the dying of the light; title: O. Henry's Civil War surprises; title: The last American epic: the Civil War novels of father and son, Michael and Jeff Shaara; title: The simultaneous burning of nine bridges in East Tennessee; title: Lincoln's Second Gettysburg Address; title: The sinking of the Sultana: a meditation on loss and forgetfulness; title: Part II. Fictional meditations on the Civil War; title: Willis Carr, sharpshooter, at Bleak House, Knoxville; title: Willis Carr meditates on the act of sketching: hair trigger pencil lines; title: Willis Carr, sharpshooter, meditates on photographs; title: A fever of dying: Henrietta Ramsey Lenoir and General William Price Sanders; title: The incendiary at the forks of the river; title: Fragments found on the field: Parson Brownlow and Dr. James Gettys Ramsey.