Author Archive for: ‘Holger Römers’
The Said within the Unsaid: The Subtle Ironies of Young Mr. Lincoln’s Intertextual References to Contemporary Historiography
According to Mark E. Neely Young Mr. Lincoln “was mostly fiction, and corny fiction at that” (p. 126). The historian acknowledges that the film’s content had been “largely dictated” by The Prairie Years, the first two-volume installment of Carl Sandburg’s popular multi-volume biography of Lincoln. But Neely apparently regards the film’s references to that “patchwork of folklore, poetic language, and history” (p. 124) …
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