The tangled web of the Civil War and Reconstruction : readings and writings from a novelist's perspective / / David madden

• Autore: Madden David
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.8
• Soggetto topico: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
• Soggetto geografico: United States History Civil War, 1861-1865; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Literature and the war
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: <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>
• Titolo autorizzato: The tangled web of the Civil War and Reconstruction
• ISBN: 1-4422-4349-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797399103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II