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Autore |
Madden David |
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Titolo |
The tangled web of the Civil War and Reconstruction : readings and writings from a novelist's perspective / / David madden |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (261 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 |
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Literature and the war |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction: "The Vibration Ripples to the Remotest Perimeter"; 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 W; Classics of Civil War Fiction; William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Quentin! Listen!; Rediscovering a Major Civil War Novel: Joseph Stanley Pennell's The History of Rome Hanks and Kindred Matters |
The Innocent Stare at the Civil War: Madison Jones's Nashville 1864: The Dying of the LightO. 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; The Sinking of the Sultana: A Meditation on Loss and Forgetfulness; 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 RiverFragments Found on the Field: Parson Brownlow and Dr. James Gettys Ramsey; Lincoln's Second Gettysburg Address; Notes; Acknowledgments |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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<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> |
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