Novel History :  Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and each other) / 
Mark C. Carnes, editor. 
 - New York :  Simon & Schuster,  c2001. 
 - 351 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> History as told by the devil incarnate: Gore Vidal's Burr /  Burr: the historical novel /  Notes of a disillusioned lover: John Updike's Memories of the Ford administration /  Reply /  Russell Banks's fictional portrait of John Brown /  In response to James McPherson's reading of Cloudsplitter /  Why Oswald missed: Don DeLillo's Libra /  The fictional man /  The Aztec world of Gary Jennings /  My indignant response /  A review of Annie Dillard's The living /  On the trail with Gus and Call: Lonesome dove and the western myth /  On Lonesome dove /  Real lives and other fictions: reconsidering Wallace Stegner's Angle of repose /  The historical imagination of A thousand acres /  Not a pretty picture /  Commerce in souls: Uncle Tom's cabin and the state of the nation /  Bodies and souls: the Haitian revolution and Madison Smartt Bell's All soul's rising /  Engaging the past /  William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner: a meditation on evil, redemption, and history /  More confessions /  Joanne B. Freeman --  Gore Vidal --  Paul Boyer --  John Updike --  James M. McPherson --  Russell Banks --  David T. Courtwright --  Don DeLillo --  Michael E. Smith --  Gary Jennings --  Richard White --  Elliott West --  Larry McMurtry --  John Demos --  John Mack Faragher --  Jane Smiley --  Joan D. Hedrick --  Michel-Rolph Trouillot --  Madison Smartt Bell --  Eugene D. Genovese --  William Styron.  Hawthorne's cultural demons: history, popular culture, and The scarlet letter /  The great Gatsby? Yes, a historical novel /  T. Coraghessan Boyle and World's end /  History on two wheels /  Albany the wondrous: William Kennedy's history in Quinn's book /  Quinn's book: looking for the buried myth /  White men in Africa: on Barbara Kingsolver's The poisonwood bible /  A war like all wars /  Some remarks on history and fiction /  An essay by (historian) Thomas Fleming on Time and tide /  (novelist) Thomas Fleming responds --  Kicking the denial syndrome: Tim O'Brien's In the lake of the woods /  The whole story /  David S. Reynolds --  John Lukacs --  Michael Kammen --  T.C. Boyle --  Mark C. Carnes --  William Kennedy --  Diane Kunz --  Tom Wicker --  Charles Frazier --  Thomas Fleming --  H. Bruce Franklin --  Tim O'Brien.  (novelist) 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0684857650 9780684857657 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00066176 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.<br/>Literature and history--United States.<br/>Historiography--United States.<br/>Roman historique am�ericain--Histoire et critique.<br/>Litt�erature et histoire--�Etats-Unis.<br/>Letterkunde.<br/>Amerikaans.<br/>Historische romans.<br/>Historici.<br/>Romanschrijvers.<br/>Geschiedschrijving.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Historiography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS374.H5  / N68 2001