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How Confederate women created new self-identities as the Civil War progressed : a study of their diaries

Title
How Confederate women created new self-identities as the Civil War progressed : a study of their diaries / Dana W. McMichael ; with a foreword by R. Scott LaMascus.
Author
McMichael, Dana W.
Publication
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2008.

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Description
xi, 259 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Women > Confederate States of America > Diaries
  • Women > Confederate States of America > Identity
  • Diaries > Women authors > History and criticism
  • Women > Southern States > Social life and customs > 19th century
  • Sex role > Southern States > History > 19th century
  • Diaries > Women authors
  • Sex role
  • Women
  • Women > Identity
  • Women > Social life and customs
  • Frau
  • Identität
  • Geschlechterrolle
  • Ethnizität
  • Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
  • Amerikaanse burgeroorlog
  • Vrouwen
  • Identiteit
  • Dagboeken
  • United States > History > Women. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives, Confederate
  • Southern States
  • United States
  • United States > Confederate States of America
  • USA > Südstaaten
  • Verenigde Staten
Genre/Form
  • diaries.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Diaries
  • History
  • Personal narratives – Confederate
  • Diaries.
  • Journaux intimes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction: "I would die without some means of expressing my feelings" -- "Free, white, and twenty-one": representations of self and slave in the diaries of Confederate women -- "I can write and think myself into a fever about my brother": the convergence of nationalism and gender -- " I shall have to read to be comforted:: intertextual influences on perceptions of ethnicity -- "As a discourager of self-conceit there is nothing like an old diary": editorial intervention in Confederate women's diaries -- Conclusion: "Rivers deep & strong has been shed & where are we now?"
ISBN
  • 9780773451483
  • 077345148X
LCCN
2008023964
OCLC
  • ocn227032020
  • 227032020
  • SCSB-1479667
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library