Women of War : Selected Memoirs, Poems, and Fiction by Virginia Women Who Lived Through the Civil War.
In their variety, the memoir, poetry, and fiction included in this exciting new anthology show the transitory nature of the literature of southern women who lived through a violent and defining crossroads in their lives. In rare and rediscovered excerpts and verses these women writers evidence the e...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas Review Press,
2014.
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| ISBN: | 9781937875503 1937875504 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In their variety, the memoir, poetry, and fiction included in this exciting new anthology show the transitory nature of the literature of southern women who lived through a violent and defining crossroads in their lives. In rare and rediscovered excerpts and verses these women writers evidence the early hopes of a cause destined to be lost, the propagandic rhetoric which accompanied it, and the destruction ultimately visited upon them, their homes, and their families. Paradoxically, even as these women defended and spoke out for a cause concerned in part with extending human bondage, they foun. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (210 pages) |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |