Memory and myth : the civil war in fiction and film from Tom's cabin to cold mountain / edited by David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, Roy Morris Jr.

Includes bibliographical references and index

'This inherited misfortune': gender, race, and slavery in Uncle Tom's cabin and Gone with the wing / William E. Huntzicker -- Beyond Uncle Tom's cabin / Lloyd Chiasson -- The terror of Poe: slavery, the southern gentleman, and the status quo / Eve Dunbar -- John Brown: the many faces of a nineteenth-century martyr / Bernell E. Tripp -- The fugitive imagination: Robert Penn Warren's John Brown / Robert Blakeslee Gilpin -- The search for community and justice: Robert Penn Warren, race relations, and the Civil War / Edward J. Blum, Sarah Hardin Blum -- Between fiction and fact: Ben Wood, Fort Lafayette, and civil war America / Menahem Blondheim -- William Gilmore Simms: a literary casualty of the Civil War / Phebe Davidson, Debra Reddin van Tuyll -- Henry Adam's Civil War: despair and Democracy / W. Scott Poole --'So many, many needless dead': the Civil War witness of Ambrose Bierce / Roy Morris -- Of saints and sinners: religion and the Civil War and reconstruction novel / Edward J. Blum -- On whose responsibility? the historical and literary underpinnings of The red badge of courage / Roy Morris -- A muckraker and Manassas: Upton Sinclair's Civil War fiction / Jessica A. Dorman -- Narrative art and modernist sensibility in the Civil War fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald / Marcia Noe, Fendall Fulton --'Let the story tellers invent it all': Col. John S. Mosby in popular literature / Paul Ashdown, Edward Caudill -- Tap roots and the free state of Jones / Nancy Dupont --'Savage satori': fact and fiction in Charles Frazier's Cold mountain / Paul Ashdown --'History with lightning': the legacy of D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation / Phebe Davidson -- Hollywood themes and southern myths: an analysis of Gone with the wing / William E. Huntzicker -- Knights in blue and butternut: television's Civil War / Paul Ashdown -- History thrice removed: Joshua Chamberlain and Gettysburg / Crompton Burton --'Ain't nobody clean': Glory! and the politics of black agency / W.