Our Missing Epic: A Study in Novels about the American Civil War, [by] Perry Carlson Lentz

Allen Allen Tate American American Civil War Andersonville Andersonville prison appeal army Arouse and Beware Bale Bale's battle becomes Benét Bernard DeVoto Carvel central chapter characters Churchill Civil War fiction Civil War novels Claffey's Colonel Confederate create death define dimension dissertation Dreyfoos effort epic esthetic evaluation Fiction Fights Fights the Civil figures Gettysburg give hero Hervey Allen historical fiction human experience involved Ira Claffey irrelevant John Brown's Body John Shawnessy Kantor killed kind Lincoln literary Lockridge Long Remember marriage marriage theme Mary Johnston meaning meaningless metaphor Miss Johnston Miss Scott moral moral responsibility myth narrative Negro never Northern novelists pattern plot portrayed present prison Raintree County realistic rebel reference relevance result romanticism says seems sense shape Shawnessy Sherman slave slavery South Southern Stonewall Jackson story style stylistic suffering Tebbs thematic tion torical tragedy Union army Union soldiers Virginia vivify Warren wherein Wilderness Yankees York