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

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/creator	McMichael, Dana W.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2008.
Description	xi, 259 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	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. United States--History --Civil War, 1861-1865 --Women. United States--History --Civil War, 1861-1865 --Personal narratives, Confederate.

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?"
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-259).
LCCN	2008023964
ISBN	9780773451483
ISBN	077345148X

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	E628 .M4 2008	✔ Available	Place Hold