Fiction and History

Tag: Civil War fiction

  • The Uses, Misuses, and Boundaries of History in Fiction about Missouri’s Civil War

    [March 22, 2013, I’ll be on a panel at the Missouri Conference on History in Cape Girardeau put on by the State Historical Society of Missouri. A double honor, in that all through graduate school and my stint at University of Arkansas Press I was a subscriber and devoted reader of the Missouri Historical Review,…

  • Working definition: Emotional truth

    Emotional Truth A visceral, heartfelt connection that arises between reader and character or characters through the unfolding (and possibly the resolution) of an invented, narrated conflict, a connection so powerful that the reader perceives reality and truth in what is known to be pretend, known to be fiction. This truth arises through a combination of…