| Description |
351 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
History as told by the devil incarnate : Gore Vidal's Burr / Joanne B. Freeman -- Burr : the historical novel / Gore Vidal -- Notes of a disillusioned lover : John Updike's Memories of the Ford administration / Paul Boyer -- Reply / John Updike -- Russell Banks's fictional portrait of John Brown / James M. McPherson -- In response to James McPherson's reading of Cloudsplitter / Russell Banks -- Why Oswald missed : Don DeLillo's Libra / David T. Courtwright -- Fictional man / Don DeLillo -- Aztec world of Gary Jennings / Michael E. Smith -- My indignant response / Gary Jennings -- Review of Annie Dillard's The living / Richard White -- On the trail with Gus and Call : Lonesome dove and the western myth / Elliott West -- On Lonesome dove / Larry McMurtry -- Real lives and other fictions : reconsidering Wallace Stegner's Angle of repose / John Demos -- Historical imagination of A thousand acres / John Mack Faragher -- Not a pretty picture / Jane Smiley -- Commerce in souls : Uncle Tom's cabin and the state of the nation / Joan D. Hedrick -- Bodies and souls : the Haitian revolution and Madison Smartt Bell's All soul's rising / Michel-Rolph Trouillot -- Engaging the past / Madison Smartt Bell -- William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner : a meditation on evil, redemption, and history / Eugene D. Genovese -- More confessions / William Styron |
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Hawthorne's cultural demons : history, popular culture, and The scarlet letter / David S. Reynolds -- Great Gatsby? Yes, a historical novel / John Lukacs -- T. Coraghessan Boyle and World's end / Michael Kammen -- History on two wheels / T. C. Boyle -- Albany the wondrous : William Kennedy's history in Quinn's book / Mark C. Carnes -- Quinn's book : looking for the buried myth / William Kennedy -- White men in Africa : on Barbara Kingsolver's The poisonwood bible / Diane Kunz -- War like all wars / Tom Wicker -- Some remarks on history and fiction / Charles Frazier -- Essay by (historian) Thomas Fleming on Time and tide / Thomas Fleming -- (novelist) Thomas Fleming responds -- Kicking the denial syndrome : Tim O'Brien's In the lake of the woods / H. Bruce Franklin -- Whole story / Tim O'Brien. |
| Subject |
Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Literature and history.
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Historiography.
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United States -- Historiography.
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| Added Author |
Carnes, Mark C. (Mark Christopher), 1950-
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| ISBN |
0684857650 |
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