Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic

Name: Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic
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ISBN: 9780226773285

ISBN-10: 0226773280

ISBN-13: 9780226773285

Edition: 2009

Authors: Julia A. Stern

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A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis's inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut's death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated literary history and the questions that attend itwhich edition represents the real Chesnut? To what genre does this text belong?may explain why the document largely has, until now, been overlooked in literary studies. Julia A. Stern's critical analysis returns Chesnut to her rightful place among…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Walls Epic In Miniature



Seeds Fertility, Flowers And Fratricide



Seeds Fruits And Famine



Words Reading And Writing



Smells The Stench Of Slavery And Sentiment



Masks Theatricals In Black



Masks Theatricals In White



Revolt Family Troubles In The House Divided



Revolt More Family Troubles In The House Divided



Recognition Looking Defeat In The Face


Notes


Index