Shelby Foote and the Art of History: Two Gates to the City

Authors

C. Stuart Chapman

ISBN

1572333189

Price

$32.00 hardcover

Publisher

University of Tennessee Press

Abstract

A paradox of Southern modernism

Foote blurs the past and present of the Civil War

Shelby Foote certainly fancied himself an adherent to literary modernism's belief that art was the supreme conveyor of knowledge in a world where truth was subjective, qualified, and even arbitrary.....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.7.3.25

Recommended Citation

Chapman, C. Stuart (2005) "Shelby Foote and the Art of History: Two Gates to the City," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 7 : Iss. 3 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.7.3.25
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol7/iss3/25