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

By: Gardner, Sarah E.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003Description: x, 341 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Other title: Blood and irony.Subject(s): Group identity -- Southern States -- History | American literature -- Women authors -- 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 -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Historiography | Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865- | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war | Southern States -- In literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.7/13/072 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

Based on the author's doctoral thesis, Emory University.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-336) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.