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Blood & irony : Southern white women's narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937

During the Civil War and its aftermath, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining historical and literary sources, Sarah Gardner argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped reshape southern identity
eBook, English, ©2003
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (x, 341 pages) : illustrations
9780807861561, 9780807828182, 0807861561, 0807828181
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Everywoman her own historian
Pen and ink warriors, 1861-1865
Countrywomen in captivity, 1865-1877
A view from the mountain, 1877-1895
The imperative of historical inquiry, 1895-1905
Righting the wrongs of history, 1905-1915
Moderns confront the Civil War, 1916-1936
Everything that rises must converge
Based on the author's doctoral thesis, Emory University
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English