Blood & irony, Southern white women's narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937, Sarah E. Gardner
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Blood & irony, Southern white women's narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937, Sarah E. Gardner
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eng
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non fiction
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Blood & irony
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electronic resource
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Sarah E. Gardner
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Southern white women's narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937
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During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining varied historical and literary sources, Sarah Gardner argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped define and reshape southern identity. Gardner considers such well-known authors as Caroline Gordon, Ellen Glasgow, and Margaret Mitchell and also recovers works by lesser-known writers such as Mary Ann Cruse, Mary Noailles Murfree, and Varina Davis. In fiction, biographies, private papers, educational texts, historical writings, and through the work of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, southern white women sought to tell and preserve what they considered to be the truth about the war. But this truth varied according to historical circumstance and the course of the conflict. Only in the aftermath of defeat did a more unified vision of the southern cause emerge. Yet Gardner reveals the existence of a strong community of Confederate women who were conscious of their shared effort to define a new and compelling vision of the southern war experience.In demonstrating the influence of this vision, Gardner highlights the role of the written word in defining a new cultural identity for the postbellum South.During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining varied historical and literary sources, Sarah Gardner argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped define and reshape southern identity. She considers such well-known authors as Caroline Gordon, Ellen Glasgow, and Margaret Mitchell and also recovers works by lesser-known writers such as Mary Ann Cruse, Mary Noailles Murfree, and Varina Davis. Gardner reveals the existence of a strong community of Confederate women who were conscious of their shared effort to define a new and compelling vision of the southern war experience. In demonstrating the influence of this vision, Gardner highlights the role of the written word in defining a new cultural identity for the postbellum South.-->
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Blood and irony
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war
- Southern States -- In literature
- Electronic books
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Historiography
- Group identity in literature
- American literature + Women authors + History and criticism
- Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
- Group identity -- Southern States -- History
- Confederate States of America -- Historiography
- Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war
- Southern States -- In literature
- Electronic books
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Historiography
- Group identity in literature
- American literature + Women authors + History and criticism
- Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
- Group identity -- Southern States -- History
- Confederate States of America -- Historiography
- Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
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