Disarming the Nation Women's Writing and the American Civil War

Name: Disarming the Nation Women's Writing and the American Civil War
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ISBN: 9780226960883

ISBN-10: 0226960889

ISBN-13: 9780226960883

Edition: 1999

Authors: Elizabeth Young

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In a study that will radically shift our understanding of Civil War literature, Elizabeth Young shows that American women writers have been profoundly influenced by the Civil War and that, in turn, their works have contributed powerfully to conceptions of the war and its aftermath. Offering fascinating reassessments of works by white writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, and Margaret Mitchell and African-American writers including Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Harper, and Margaret Walker, Young also highlights crucial but lesser-known texts such as the memoirs of women who masqueraded as soldiers. In each case she explores the interdependence of gender with issues of race,…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 405
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.91" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Topsy-Turvy: Civil War and Uncle Tom's Cabin



A Wound of One's Own: Louisa May Alcott's Body Politic



Black Woman, White House: Race and Redress in Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes



Confederate Counterfeit: The Case of the Cross-Dressed Civil War Soldier



"Army of Civilizers": Frances Harper's Warring Fictions



The Rhett and the Black: Sex and Race in Gone With the Wind


Afterword


Notes


Index