{"product_id":"shelby-foote-novelist-and-historian-paperback","title":"Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Phillips  Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert L. Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobert L. Phillips  Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalled the greatest Civil War historian, Shelby Foote began his career as a novelist whose powerful works of fiction rose out of his closeness to life and culture in his native region, the Mississippi Delta country. Later in his career he transformed modern historical prose by his keen sense of the novel. His artistic distance from the elements of regionalism that lie at the heart both of his novels and of his history writing gives his prose great narrative force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis perceptive study fills the genuine need for a sound critical appreciation of Foote the novelist. After he appeared as a sage commentator in the PBS series \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e, the popular acclaim that catapulted Shelby Foote the historian to even greater eminence as an American oracle renewed much deserved interest in his novels and in critically rich assessments such as this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA critical appreciation of the author extolled for both his fiction and his acclaimed three-volume history, \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert L. Phillips, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e, joined the English department at Mississippi State University in 1971 and became book review editor of the \u003ci\u003eMississippi Quarterly \u003c\/i\u003ein 1973. As codirector for the Mississippi Library Commission's project \"Mississippi Writers in Context,\" a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (1975-1977), Phillips designed and coedited a six-segment television series on Mississippi's authors, \u003ci\u003eA Climate for Genius \u003c\/i\u003e(1975); edited written transcripts of the series; compiled and edited a collection of antebellum Mississippi short stories; and wrote introductory booklets on the works of Shelby Foote and Eudora Welty's \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Apples\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 1991\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47426634219698,"sku":"9781578068746","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/afd2de0740e9e98a87f8e75e9ac343b0.webp?v=1778516297","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/shelby-foote-novelist-and-historian-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}