Memory and Myth : The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cold Mountain

Preface ix David Sachsman Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Roy Morris Jr. Part I: "So This Is the Little Lady Who Made This Big War" "This Inherited Misfortune": Gender, Race, and Slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gone with the Wind 11 William E. Huntzicker Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin 23 Lloyd Chiasson, Jr. The Terror of Poe: Slavery, the Southern Gentleman, and the Status Quo 39 Eve Dunbar John Brown: The Many Faces of a Nineteenth-Century Martyr 49 Bernell E. Tripp The Fugitive Imagination: Robert Penn Warren's John Brown 59 Robert Blakeslee Gilpin The Search for Community and Justice: Robert Penn Warren, Race Relations, and the Civil War 71 Edward J. Blum and Sarah Hardin Blum Part II: Civil War Witnesses: Between Fiction and Fact Between Fiction and Fact: Ben Wood, Fort Lafayette, and Civil War America 83 Menahem Blondheim William Gilmore Simms: A literary Casualty of the Civil War 95 Phebe Davidson and Debra Reddin van Tuyll Henry Adams's Civil War: Despair and Democracy 105 W. Scott Poole "So Many, Many Needless Dead": The Civil War Witness of Ambrose Bierce 115 Roy Morris Jr. Of Saints and Sinners: Religion and the Civil War and Reconstruction Novel 127 Edward J. Blum On Whose Responsibility? The Historical and Literary Underpinnings of The Red Badge of Courage 137 Roy Morris Jr. Part III: "Let the Story Tellers Invent It All" A Muckraker at Manassas: Upton Sinclair's Civil War Fiction 153 Jessica A. Dorman Narrative Art and Modrnist Sensibility in the Civil War Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald 163 Marcia Noe and Fendall Fulton "Let the Story Tellers Invent It All": Col. John S. Mosby in Popular Literature 177 Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill Hydra or Heracles? Nathan Bedford Forrest in Civil War Fiction 185 Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill Tap Roots and the Free State of Jones 197 Nancy Dupont "Savage Satori": Fact and Fiction in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain 207 Paul Ashdown Part IV: "History with Lightning" "History with Lightning": The Legacy of D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation 223 Phebe Davidson Hollywood Themes and Southern Myths: An Analysis of Gone with the Wind 235 William E. Huntzicker Knights in Blue and Butternut: Television's Civil War 243 Paul Ashdown History Thrice Removed: Joshua Chamberlain and Gettysburg 251 Crompton Burton "Ain't Nobody Clean": Glory! and the Politics of Black Agency 261 W. Scott Poole Alex Haley's Roots: The Fiction of Fact 269 William E. Huntzicker A Voice of the South: The Transformation of Shelby Foote 281 David W. Bulla Index 289 Contributors 301