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A Disturbing and Alien Memory : Southern Novelists Writing History /
In the late nineteenth century, as the study of history shifted from the domain of letters into the social sciences, novelists in the North and the West generally turned away from writing history. Many southern novelists and poets, however, continued to undertake historical writing as an extension o...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Memory enough for the best and bravest of us all": William Gilmore Simms and the failure of romantic history
- "It will be as I now remember it": Thomas Nelson Page and the old south
- "The exasperated genius of Africa": William Wells Brown and African American history
- "A disturbing and alien memory": Allen Tate, modernism, and the use of the past
- "History is blind, but man is not": Robert Penn Warren and the rebuke of the past
- "The conflict is behind me now": Shelby Foote writes the Civil War.