Blood & Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937Univ of North Carolina Press, 2004 - 341 pages White women's writing contructs historical memory. 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 literar |
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Pen and Ink Warriors 18611865 | 13 |
Countrywomen In Captivity 18651877 | 39 |
A View from the Mountain 18771895 | 75 |
The Imperative of Historical Inquiry 18951905 | 115 |
Righting the Wrongs of History 19051915 | 159 |
Moderns Confront the Civil War 19161936 | 209 |
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Page 1 - ... a gallant and finely tragical focal point to which the history of the race had been raised from out the old miasmic swamps of spiritual sloth by two angels valiantly fallen and strayed, altering the course of human events and purging the souls of men.
Page 1 - Sartoris' death prior to the second battle of Manassas. She had told the story many times since (at eighty she still told it, on occasions usually inopportune) and as she grew older the tale itself grew richer and richer, taking on a mellow splendor like wine; until what had been a hare-brained prank of two heedless and reckless boys wild with their own youth had become a gallant and finely tragical focal point to which the history of the race had been raised from out the old miasmic swamps of spiritual...
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