Title: Shelby Foote and the art of history
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.
Subjects: American Historical fiction, Criticism and interpretation, Historiography, History, History and criticism, In literature, Knowledge, Literature and history, Southern States, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Historical fiction, history and criticism, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, historiography, Southern states, in literature, Knowledge and learning
Places: Southern States, United States
People: Shelby Foote
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865