Table of Contents: A disturbing and alien memory

Main Author:	Mitchell, Douglas L., 1968-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.
Subjects:	American fiction > History and criticism. > Southern States Authors, American > Knowledge > Southern States > History. American fiction > History and criticism. > 19th century American fiction > History and criticism. > 20th century History in literature. Southern States > Intellectual life > 1865- Southern States > In literature.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10271946

Table of Contents:

"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.