A disturbing and alien memory
Subtitle: southern novelists writing history
By: Douglas L. Mitchell.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780807133736
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Memory enough for the best and bravest of us all": William Gilmore Simms and the failure of romantic history; title: "It will be as I now remember it": Thomas Nelson Page and the old south; title: "The exasperated genius of Africa": William Wells Brown and African American history; title: "A disturbing and alien memory": Allen Tate, modernism, and the use of the past; title: "History is blind, but man is not": Robert Penn Warren and the rebuke of the past; title: "The conflict is behind me now": Shelby Foote writes the Civil War.