Supplemental Materials for “The Historical ” An Audio Program from This Goodly Land: Alabama’s Literary Landscape

Program Description

Interviewer Maiben Beard and Dr. Bert Hitchcock, Professor emeritus, of the Auburn University Department of English discuss the historical novel.

Reading List

Overviews and Bibliographies

• Butterfield, Herbert. The Historical Novel: An Essay. Cambridge, Eng.: The University Press, 1924. Rpt. Folcroft, Penn.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1971. Rpt. Norwood, Penn.: Norwood Editions, 1975. • Carnes, Mark C., ed. Novel History: Historians and Confront ’s Past (and Each Other). : Simon & Schuster, 2001. • Coffey, Rosemary K., and Elizabeth F. Howard. America as Story: Historical for Middle and Secondary Schools. Chicago: American Library Association, 1997. • Dekker, George. The American Historical Romance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. • Dickinson, A. T. American . New York: Scarecrow Press, 1958. Rpt. New York: Scarecrow Press, 1963. • Henderson, Harry B. Versions of the Past: The Historical Imagination in American Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. • Holman, C. Hugh. The Immoderate Past: The Southern and History. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1977. • Leisy, Earnest E. The American Historical Novel. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950. • Lukács, Georg [György]. The Historical Novel. Trans. Hannah and Stanley Mitchell. London: Press, 1962. • Matthews, Brander. The Historical Novel and Other Essays. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1901. [An online version of The Historical Novel and Other Essays is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=wA1bAAAAMAAJ.] • VanMeter, Vandelia L. America in Historical Fiction: A Bibliographic Guide. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1997.

Alabama Authors—Nineteenth Century

Jeremiah Clemens

• Clemens, Jeremiah. Bernard Lile: An Historical Romance, Embracing the Periods of the Texas Revolution and the Mexican War. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1856. [An online version of Bernard Lile is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=-pMgAAAAMAAJ.] • ---. Mustang Gray: A Romance. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1858. [An online version of Mustang Gray is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=dZQgAAAAMAAJ.] • ---. The Rivals: A Tale of the Times of Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1859. Rpt. as An American Colonel: A Story of Thrilling Times During the Revolution and the Great Rivalry of Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Akron: Wolfe Publishing Co, 1900. [An online version of The Rivals is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=AhQ3AAAAIAAJ.] • ---. Tobias Wilson: A Tale of the Great Rebellion. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1865. [An online version of Tobias Wilson is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=xZQgAAAAMAAJ.]

T. C. de Leon

• de Leon, T. C., and Erwin Ledyard. John Holden, Unionist: A Romance of the Days of Destruction and Reconstruction. St. Paul, Minn.: The Price-McGill Co., 1893. [An online version of John Holden, Unionist is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=JwYiAAAAMAAJ.] • ---. A Fair Blockade-Breaker. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1891. [An online version of A Fair Blockade-Breaker is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=FccsAAAAYAAJ.] • ---. Crag-Nest: A Romance of the Days of Sheridan’s Ride. Mobile, Ala.: Gossip Print Co., 1897. [An online version of Crag-Nest is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=L8csAAAAYAAJ.] • ---. The Pride of the Mercers. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, Co., 1897. • ---. An Innocent Cheat, or, Episodes of the Everlasting Comedy. New York: F. T. Neely, 1898. [An online version of An Innocent Cheat is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=DscsAAAAYAAJ.]

J. H. Ingraham

• Ingraham, J. H. Lafitte: The Pirate of the Gulf. New York: Harper, 1836. Rpt. New York: Pollard & Moss, 1888. Rpt. New York: Garrett Press, 1970. Rpt. as Lafitte. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Literature House, 1970. Rpt. Albany, N.Y.: New College and University Press, 1990. [An online version of Lafitte is available from Internet Archive’s American Libraries at http://www.archive.org/details/lafittepirateofg00ingr.] • ---. The Dancing Feather, or, The Amateur Freebooters: A Romance of New York. : George Roberts, 1842. [An online version of The Dancing Feather is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=mfccAAAAMAAJ.] • ---. The Prince of the House of David, or, Three Years in the Holy City. New York: Pudney & Russell, 1855. Rpt. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887. Rpt. Philadelphia: H. Altemus, 1897. Rpt. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1908. Rpt. London: Collins, 1948. Rpt. Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977. [An online version of The Prince of the House of David is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=fQoZAAAAYAAJ.] • ---. The Pillar of Fire, or, Israel in Bondage. New York: Pudney & Russell, 1859. Rpt. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887. Rpt. Elgin, Ill.: Cook Pub. Co., 1899. [An online version of The Pillar of Fire is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=CuVYB6oiLWAC.] • ---. The Throne of David: From the Consecration of the Shepherd of Bethlehem to the Rebellion of Prince Absalom ... . Philadelphia: G. G. Evans, 1860. Rpt. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887. Rpt. Boston: Little, Brown, 1899. [An online version of The Throne of David is available from Wright Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=q-eAC9cs1agC.]

Alabama Authors—Twentieth Century

Ace Atkins

• Atkins, Ace. White Shadow. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2006. • ---. Wicked City. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008. • ---. Devil’s Garden. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2009.

Douglas Fields Bailey

• Bailey, Douglas Fields. Devil Make a Third. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1948. Rpt. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989.

Wyatt Blassingame

• Blassingame, Wyatt. Live from the Devil. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1959. • ---. The Golden Geyser. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961. • ---. Halo of Spears. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962. [An online version of Halo of Spears is available from Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org/details/haloofspears031294mbp.]

Arna Bontemps

• Bontemps, Arna. Black Thunder. New York: Macmillan, 1936. Rpt. Boston: Beacon Press, 1968. Rpt. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. • ---. Drums at Dusk. New York: Macmillan, 1939. Rpt. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009.

Joe David Brown

• Brown, Joe David. Addie Pray: A Novel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. Rpt. as Paper Moon. New York: New American Library, 1973. Rpt. as Paper Moon. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002.

Carl Carmer

• Carmer, Carl. Genesee Fever. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1941.

Forrest Carter

• Carter, Forrest. The Rebel Outlaw, Josey . Gantt, Ala.: Whippoorwill Publishers, 1973. Rpt. as Gone to Texas. New York: Delacorte Press, 1975. Rpt. as The Outlaw Josey Wales. New York: Dell, 1976. • ---. The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales. New York: Delacorte Press/Eleanore Friede, 1976. • ---. Watch for Me on the Mountain. New York: Delacorte Press, 1978. Rpt. as Cry Geronimo. New York: Dell, 1980.

Lonnie Coleman

• Coleman, Lonnie. Beulah Land. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1980. • ---. Look Away, Beulah Land. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977. Rpt. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1984. • ---. The Legacy of Beulah Land. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1984.

Jesse Hill Ford

• Ford, Jesse Hill. The Raider. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975.

Tom Franklin

• Franklin, Tom. Hell at the Breech. New York: William Morrow, 2003. • ---. Smonk, or, Widow Town: Being the Scabrous Adventures of E. O. Smonk & of the Whore Evavangeline in Clarke County, Alabama, Early in the Last Century .... New York: William Morrow, 2006.

Ravi Howard

• Howard, Ravi. Like Trees, Walking. New York: Amistad, 2007.

Mary Johnston

• Johnston, Mary. Prisoners of Hope: A Tale of Colonial . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1898. Rpt. as The Old Dominion. London: Constable, 1899. Rpt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. [An online version of Prisoners of Hope is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=yOSLiRGEDvcC.] • ---. To Have and To Hold. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Rpt. as By Order of the Company. London: Constable, 1900. Rpt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. Rpt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. Rpt. as To Have and To Hold: A Tale of Providence and Perseverance in Colonial Jamestown. San Antonio, Texas: The Vision Forum, 2006. [An online version of To Have and To Hold is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=aTs6AAAAMAAJ.] • ---. Lewis Rand. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, The Riverside Press, 1908. Rpt. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. [An online version of Lewis Rand is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=1yI1AAAAMAAJ.] • ---. The Long Roll. Illus. N. C. Wyeth. Boston, Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press, 1911. Rpt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. Rpt. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. [An online version of The Long Roll is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=lyI1AAAAMAAJ.] • ---. Cease Firing. Illus. N. C. Wyeth. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. Rpt. New York: Popular Library, 1940. Rpt. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. [An online version of Cease Firing is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=66BtbJMC7BsC.] • ---. Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1918. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1970. [An online version of Pioneers of the Old South is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=4wRjAAAAMAAJ.] • ---. 1492. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1922. Rpt. as Admiral of the Ocean-Sea. London: Butterworth, 1923. Rpt. as 1492: Admiral of the Ocean-Sea. Chester, N.Y.: Hambledon Hill Press, 2005. [An online version of 1492 is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=GB4eAAAAMAAJ.]

Madison Jones

• Jones, Madison. Forest of the Night. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1960. • ---. Nashville 1864: The Dying of the Light: A Novel. Nashville: J. S. Sanders, 1997.

Perry Lentz

• Lentz, Perry. The Falling Hills. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1967. • ---. It Must Be Now the Kingdom Coming: An Historical Romance. New York: Crown, 1973.

Andrew Lytle

• Lytle, Andrew. The Long Night. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1941. Rpt. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988. • ---. At the Moon’s Inn. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1941. Rpt. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990.

Robert R. McCammon

• McCammon, Robert. Speaks the Nightbird. Montgomery: River City Pub., 2002. • ---. The Queen of Bedlam. New York: Pocket Books, 2007.

John Trotwood Moore

• Moore, John Trotwood. The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills. Philadelphia: The J. C. Winston Company, 1906. Rpt. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1972. [An online version of The Bishop of Cottontown is available from Google Book Search at http://books.google.com/books?id=RNMXAAAAYAAJ.] • ---. Hearts of Hickory: A Story of Andrew Jackson and the War of 1812. Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1926.

Sena Jeter Naslund

• Naslund, Sena Jeter. Sherlock in Love: A Novel. Boston: David R. Godine, 1993. • ---. Ahab's Wife, or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel. New York: William Morrow, 1999. • ---. Four Spirits: A Novel. New York: Morrow, 2003. • ---. Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette. New York: William Morrow, 2006.

Julia Oliver

• Oliver, Julia. Goodbye to the Buttermilk Sky. Montgomery: Black Belt Press, 1994. Rpt. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001. • ---. Music of Falling Water. Winston-Salem, N.C.: J. F. Blair, 2001. • ---. Devotion: A Novel Based on the Life of Winnie Davis, Daughter of the Confederacy. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006.

Gin Phillips

• Phillips, Gin. The Well and the Mine: A Novel. Portland, Ore.: Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, 2007.

Catherine Rodgers

• Rodgers, Catherine. The Towers Inheritance. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1958.

Lee Smith

• Smith, Lee. On Agate Hill. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006.

Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen

• Sorensen, Virginia Eggertsen. A Little Lower than the Angels. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1942. Rpt. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997. • ---. On This Star. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946. • ---. The Neighbors. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. • ---. The Evening and the Morning. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1949. Rpt. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1999. • ---. Many Heavens. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1954. • ---. Kingdom Come. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1960.

Emma Gelders Sterne

• Sterne, Emma Gelders. Some Plant Olive Trees. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1937.

T. S. Stribling

• Stribling, T. S. The Forge. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1931. Rpt. University: University of Alabama Press, 1985. • ---. The Store. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1932. Rpt. University: University of Alabama Press, 1985. • ---. Unfinished Cathedral. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1934. Rpt. University: University of Alabama Press, 1986.

Margaret Walker

• Walker, Margaret. Jubilee. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966.

Lella Warren

• Warren, Lella. Foundation Stone. New York: Knopf, 1940. Rpt. University: University of Alabama Press, 1986. • ---. Whetstone Walls. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952.

John Weld

• Weld, John. Don't You Cry for Me: A Novel. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. • ---. The Pardners: A Novel of the California Gold Rush. New York: C. Scribner's, 1941. • ---. Sabbath Has No End: A Novel of Negro Slavery. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1942. • ---. The Missionary: A Novel of the Early Southwest. Stafford, Va.: Northwoods Press, 1981.

Web Sites

• Choi, Soon-Yong. Historical Fiction Network. http://www.histfiction.net/ • “Defining the .” Historical Novel Society. 2007. The Historical Novel Society. http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/definition.htm • Hamm, Richard F. Writing History/Writing Fiction: A Virtual Conference Session. History and MultiMedia Center, Department of History, University at Albany-SUNY. http://www.albany.edu/history/hist_fict/home.htm • Haskell, Arlo. “Littoral: From ‘Historical Fiction and the Search for Truth’.” Key West Literary Seminar. 2009. http://www.kwls.org/lit/kwls_blog/historical_fiction/ • Woodruff, Martha. “Recent Rise of Historical Fiction.” Weekend Edition Sunday. National Public Radio. 30 May 2004. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1916331

Discussion Questions

• Many of historical fiction are meticulous about their research. However, even the most careful will “change history” by adding or eliminating characters, rearranging geography, altering the sequence of events, etc., to improve their stories. From your own experience, is fiction a useful tool for learning history? • Sir believed that the writer should focus on people rather than on period details because human nature is the same underneath our cultural influences. Other writers believe that the world in which people live shapes their personalities and behavior, so they provide period details to help readers better understand their characters’ actions. How do you feel about this? • Writers sometimes use historical settings to examine contemporary issues. For example, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible uses the Salem witch trials to make a point about McCarthyism in the Nineteen Fifties. Does the period atmosphere that results from this change make the author’s message more or less clear to the average person? Explain.

Lesson Plans

• Grades 6-8 o Bauernschub, Mary Beth. “Dressing Up.” ARTSEDGE. The John F. Kennedy Center for the . http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2329/

• Grades 9-12

o Compston, Christine L. “'s Pride and Prejudice: The Novel as Historical Source.” EDSITEment. 2008. National Endowment for the Humanities. http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=776