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

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Label

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

Title remainder

Southern white women's narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937

Statement of responsibility

Sarah E. Gardner

Title variation

Blood and irony

Creator

• Gardner, Sarah E

Subject

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

Genre

• Electronic books
• Personal narratives, Confederate

Language

eng

Summary

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.-->

Member of

• hoopla (Digital media service)

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

973.7/13/072

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult