Shelby Foote : novelist and historian

Phillips, Robert L., Jr. (Robert LeRoy), 1940- (Author).

Summary: Called the greatest Civil War historian, Shelby Foote began his career as a novelist whose powerful works of fiction rose out of his closeness to life and culture in his native region, the Mississippi Delta country. Later in his career he transformed modern historical prose by his keen sense of the novel. His artistic distance from the elements of regionalism that lie at the heart both of his novels and of his history writing gives his prose great narrative force. This perceptive study fills the genuine need for a sound critical appreciation of Foote the novelist. After he appeared as a sage commentator in the PBS series The Civil War, the popular acclaim that catapulted Shelby Foote the historian to even greater eminence as an American oracle renewed much deserved interest in his novels and in critically rich assessments such as this one.

Record details

ISBN: 9781604736663
ISBN: 9781578068746
ISBN: 9781283275101
ISBN: 1604736666
ISBN: 1578068746
ISBN: 1283275104
Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 pages)
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Computer data.
Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes chapter notes, selected bibliography (pages 189-194), and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The wilds of the English language -- "Tournament" and "Shiloh" -- A Jordan County trilogy -- Form and "The Civil War : A Narrative" -- "September September."
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.