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The tangled web of the Civil War and Reconstruction : readings and writings from a novelist's perspective /
<Span><span>This unique collection of writings by the celebrated author David Madden provides a multitude of reflections on the Civil War and Reconstruction, from nonfiction to fiction. </span></span>
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman and Littlefield,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. "The vibration ripples to the remotest perimeter"
- For the new millennium, new perspectives on the Civil War and Reconstruction (as of 1997)
- Fletcher Pratt's A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire
- On James McPherson's For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
- Classics of Civil War fiction
- William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: Quentin! Listen!
- Rediscovering a major Civil War novel: Joseph Stanley Pennell's History of Rome Hanks and Kindred Matters
- The innocent stare at the Civil War: Madison Jones's Nashville 1864: The Dying of the Light
- O. Henry's Civil War surprises
- The last American epic: the Civil War novels of father and son, Michael and Jeff Shaara
- The simultaneous burning of nine bridges in East Tennessee
- Lincoln's Second Gettysburg Address
- The sinking of the Sultana: a meditation on loss and forgetfulness
- Part II. Fictional meditations on the Civil War and reconstruction by Willis Carr, sharpshooter
- Willis Carr, sharpshooter, at Bleak House, Knoxville
- Willis Carr meditates on the act of sketching: hair trigger pencil lines
- Willis Carr, sharpshooter, meditates on photographs
- A fever of dying: Henrietta Ramsey Lenoir and General William Price Sanders
- The incendiary at the forks of the river
- Fragments found on the field: Parson Brownlow and Dr. James Gettys Ramsey.
- Part III. Lincoln on remembrance and perspective
- Lincoln's second Gettysburg Address.