"This inherited misfortune" : gender, race, and slavery in Uncle Tom's cabin and Gone with the wind | p. 11 |
Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin | p. 23 |
The terror of Poe : slavery, the southern gentleman, and the status quo | p. 39 |
John Brown : the many faces of a nineteenth-century martyr | p. 49 |
The fugitive imagination : Robert Penn Warren's John Brown | p. 59 |
The search for community and justice : Robert Penn Warren, race relations, and the Civil War | p. 71 |
Between fiction and fact : Ben Wood, Fort Lafayette, and Civil War America | p. 83 |
William Gilmore Simms : a literary casualty of the Civil War | p. 95 |
Henry Adams's Civil War : despair and democracy | p. 105 |
"So many, many needless dead" : the Civil War witness of Ambrose Bierce | p. 115 |
Of saints and sinners : religion and the Civil War and Reconstruction novel | p. 127 |
On whose responsibility? : the historical and literary underpinnings of The red badge of courage | p. 137 |
A muckraker at Manassas : Upton Sinclair's Civil War fiction | p. 153 |
Narrative art and modernist sensibility in the Civil War fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald | p. 163 |
"Let the story tellers invent it all" : Col. John S. Mosby in popular literature | p. 177 |
Hydra or Heracles? : Nathan Bedford Forrest in Civil War fiction | p. 185 |
Tap roots and the free state of Jones | p. 197 |
"Savage Satori" : fact and fiction in Charles Frazier's Cold mountain | p. 207 |
"History with lightning" : the legacy of D. W. Griffith's The birth of a nation | p. 223 |
Hollywood themes and southern myths : an analysis of Gone with the wind | p. 235 |
Knights in blue and butternut : television's Civil War | p. 243 |
History thrice removed : Joshua Chamberlain and Gettysburg | p. 251 |
"Ain't nobody clean" : Glory! and the politics of black agency | p. 261 |
Alex Haley's Roots : the fiction of fact | p. 269 |
A voice of the south : the transformation of Shelby Foote | p. 281 |
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