{"product_id":"scars-to-prove-it-the-civil-war-soldier-and-american-fiction-9781606350157","title":"Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistory as fictions muse  When the first cannon sounded over Charleston Harbor in 1861  it announced the beginning of an American literary phenomenon. Readers North and South hungered for imaginative writing about the escalating war  and canny publishers were swift to deliver. . . . Today even the most conservative estimate would place the total number of Civil War novels at well over one thousand  and this figure does not account for the thousands of war-related stories published in journals  newspapers  and magazines since 1861.from the Introduction This examination of the interaction between fictional representations of the Civil War and the memoirs and autobiographies of Civil War soldiers argues that veterans accounts taught later generations to represent the conflict in terms of individual experiences  revealing how national identity developed according to written records of the past. Author Craig A. Warren explores seven popular novels about the Civil WarThe Red Badge of Courage  Gone with the Wind  None Shall Look Back  The Judas Field  The Unvanquished  The Killer Angels  and Absalom  Absalom! His study reveals that the war owes much of its cultural power to a large but overlooked genre of writing: postwar memoirs  regimental histories  and other narratives authored by Union and Confederate veterans. Warren contends that literary scholars and historians took seriously the influence that veterans narratives had on the shape and character of Civil War fiction. Scars to Prove It fills a gap in the study of Civil War literature and will appeal to those interested in the literature  military writing  and literary studies related to the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960684273717,"sku":"ByrdShop_1606350153","price":65.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781606350157.jpg?v=1788292303","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/scars-to-prove-it-the-civil-war-soldier-and-american-fiction-9781606350157","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}