TY - BOOK AU - Carnes,Mark C. TI - Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and each other) SN - 0684857650 AV - PS374.H5 N68 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Historical fiction, American KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and history KW - United States KW - Historiography KW - Roman historique am�ericain KW - Histoire et critique KW - Litt�erature et histoire KW - �Etats-Unis KW - Letterkunde KW - gtt KW - Amerikaans KW - Historische romans KW - Historici KW - Romanschrijvers KW - Geschiedschrijving N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 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 --; The fictional man; Don DeLillo --; The Aztec world of Gary Jennings; Michael E. Smith --; My indignant response; Gary Jennings --; A 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 --; The 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; Hawthorne's cultural demons: history, popular culture, and The scarlet letter; David S. Reynolds --; The 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 --; A war like all wars; Tom Wicker --; Some remarks on history and fiction; Charles Frazier --; An essay by (historian) Thomas Fleming on Time and tide; (novelist); Thomas Fleming --; (novelist) Thomas Fleming responds --; Kicking the denial syndrome: Tim O'Brien's In the lake of the woods; H. Bruce Franklin --; The whole story; Tim O'Brien; Also issued online UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon051/00066176.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon052/00066176.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0645/00066176-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/00066176-s.html ER -