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Subject(s)

• Historical fiction, American—Bio-bibliography—Dictionaries [Browse]
• Authors, American—Biography—Dictionaries [Browse]
• War stories, American—History and criticism [Browse]
• War in literature [Browse]
• United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Literature and the war [Browse]

Editor

• Anderson, George Parker, 1957- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]
• Reference works [Browse]

Series

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 378. [More in this series]

Summary note

This volume examines the literary fascination with the American Civil War, which seems to have only intensified in the last fifty years. It includes entries on a variety of authors and approaches, ranging from well-known novelists who have explored major issues, both regarding the nature of human beings and war, to largely forgotten writers who used the war mainly as a setting for adventure.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Print version record.

Contents

• Beginnings ; "A dreg of the great ebbing tide" / Rebecca Harding Davis ; "Without origin or explanation" / Stephen Wright ; "Summoned to Shelton Farm" / Ron Rash ; "At the big house" / Margaret Walker ; "Never yield a piece of property" / Ishmael Reed
• Fort Sumter to Shiloh ; "Fort Sumter has surrendered!" / William Taylor Adams [Oliver Optic] ; "Not an inviting place" / Bernard Cornwell ; "Rich and sweet" / Andrew Lytle ; "Ten thousand of us" / Shelby Foote ; "Crows darting overhead" / Kiana Davenport
• Seven pines to Chancellorsville ; "The man in the basket" / James Lee Burke ; "Forty ambulances are at the door" / Louisa May Alcott ; "An onslaught of redoubtable dragons" / Stephen Crane ; "The siege of Port Hudson" / John William De Forest
• Gettysburg to Sherman's March ; "That July afternoon in 1863" / William Faulkner ; "Fur die freiheit!" / Robert Penn Warren ; "The ground at his feet" / Caroline Gordon ; "On the mantel" / Stark Young ; "Wall, blind man, tree, cart, Road" / Charles Frazier ; "A quarter of a mile of furious slaughter" / Hervey Allen ; "Miles from home" / Margaret Mitchell ; "As black as he was" / Madison Jones ; "A sneaking, no-rules war" / Josephine Humphreys
• After Appomattox ; "Words written down" / E.L. Doctorow ; "A Piece of Needlework" / Marilynne Robinson ; "To Live in the Quick World" / Geraldine Brooks ; "All the Pretty Things" / Gary Paulsen ; "Miles Have I Traveled" / Alice Randall ; "Mr. Brady's Photographs" / Kaye Gibbons
• William Taylor Adams [Oliver Optic] (1822-1897) / M. Tyler Sasser
• Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) / Christine Doyle
• Hervey Allen (1889-1949) / Suzanne Kamata
• Geraldine Brooks (1955- ) / Helena Maragou
• James Lee Burke (1936- ) / Brad Klypchak
• Bernard Cornwell (1944- ) / Anthony Scotti
• Stephen Crane (1871-1900) / Steven Olsen-Smith
• Kiana Davenport (1940- ) / Suzanne Kamata
• Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) / Christina Marrocco
• John William De Forest (1826-1906) / Matthew Blackwell
• E.L. Doctorow (1931-2015) / Theodora Tsimpouki
• William Faulkner (1897-1962) / Hans H. Skei
• Shelby Foote (1916-2005) / Wolfgang Hochbruck
• Charles Frazier (1950- ) / Joseph Schaub
• Kaye Gibbons (1960- ) / Ruth Collette Hoffman
• Caroline Gordon (1895-1981) / Veronica Makowsky
• Josephine Humphreys (1945- ) / Joan Wylie Hall
• Madison Jones (1925-2012) / Jan Nordby Gretlund
• Andrew Lytle (1902-1995) / Shawn E. Miller
• Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) / Arlene R. Quaratiello
• Gary Paulsen (1939- ) / Amy Cummins
• Alice Randall (1959- ) / Ellen F. Brown
• Ron Rash (1953- ) / James R. Giles
• Ishmael Reed (1938- ) / Janet Z. Marsh
• Marilynne Robinson (1943- ) / Rachel Sykes Margaret Walker (1915-1998) / Seretha D. Williams
• Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) / William Bedford Clark
• Stephen Wright (1946- ) / Paul Gleason
• Stark Young (1881-1963) / Kathryn Seidel.

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ISBN

• 9780787696535
• 0787696536

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