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Author:

Gardner, Sarah E.

Title:

Blood & irony : Southern white women's narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 / Sarah E. Gardner.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

x, 341 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Group identity--Southern States--History.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Southern States--History--19th century.
Women and literature--Southern States--History--20th century.
Group identity in literature.
Confederate States of America--Historiography.
United States--Historiography.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Historiography.
Southern States--Intellectual life--1865-
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
United States--Literature and the war.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature and the war.
Southern States--In literature.

Notes:

Based on the author's doctoral thesis, Emory University. Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-336) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780807828182 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807828181 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52509402

LCCN:

2003012777

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)