6/27/2023 0 Comments Shelby foote on the civil war![]() ![]() Gallie, and Morton White, argued the intellectual validity of historical narrative. ![]() Vann Woodward observed in a review of Foote’s book, not only honor “the analytical urge” while tending to dismiss “the narrative impulse” they ignore “the strictly martial, guns-and-battle aspect of war, the most essential aspect.” During Foote’s Gibbonian labor of 20 years, however, a number of theorists of historiography, notably Leo Braudy, W. ![]() His challenge to the preferences of academic historians is the greater in that he wrote what is often deprecated as “mere” military history. In posting the bald phrase “A Narrative” as the subtitle of his history, The Civil War, Shelby Foote, previously known as a novelist, advanced a claim for literary sensibility and art in a field where the palms were going to analysis and schemes of quantification. ![]()
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