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Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, Date: 2006. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. 341 pages, indexed. Soft cover bound in gray and white wrappers. A nice, clean copy. 2006. The University of North Carolina Press ISBN 080785767x 9780807857670 [US]
ISBN10: 080785767X, ISBN13: 9780807857670, [publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London] Softcover 8vo. 341 pages, indexed. Soft cover bound in gray and white wrappers. A nice, clean copy. [Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2006 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white.
ISBN10: 080785767X, ISBN13: 9780807857670, [publisher: The University of North Carolina Press 2006-08] [Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006]
Univ of North Carolina Pr, Date: 2006. Paperback. New. 341 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.00 inches. 2006. Univ of North Carolina Pr ISBN 080785767X 9780807857670 [GB]
Paperback / softback. New. 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, this book argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped define and reshape southern identity. ISBN 080785767x 9780807857670 [GB]
ISBN10: 080785767X, ISBN13: 9780807857670, [publisher: The University Of North Carolina Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 postbel ...
University of North Carolina Press, Date: 2006-08-07. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2006. University of North Carolina Press ISBN 080785767X 9780807857670 [US]
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