Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 PDF
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B L O O D A N D I R O N Y & Blood Irony Southern White Women’s Narratives ofthe CivilWar, – TheUniversity ofNorth Carolina Press . ©TheUniversityofNorthCarolinaPress Allrightsreserved DesignedbyKristinaKachele SetinMinionbyTsengInformationSystems,Inc. ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Thepaperinthisbookmeetstheguidelinesfor permanenceanddurabilityoftheCommitteeon ProductionGuidelinesforBookLongevityofthe CouncilonLibraryResources. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Gardner,SarahE. Bloodandirony:Southernwhitewomen’snarratives oftheCivilWar,–/SarahE.Gardner. p.cm. Basedontheauthor’sdoctoralthesis,Emory University. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ---(cloth:alk.paper) .ConfederateStatesofAmerica—Historiography. .UnitedStates—History—CivilWar,–— Historiography. .SouthernStates—Intellectual life—– .Groupidentity—SouthernStates— History. .UnitedStates—History—CivilWar, –—Personalnarratives,Confederate. .UnitedStates—History—CivilWar,–— Literatureandthewar. .Americanliterature— Womenauthors—Historyandcriticism. .Women andliterature—SouthernStates—History. .SouthernStates—Inliterature. .Groupidentity inliterature. I.Title. . .''—dc Contents Acknowledgments,ix . EverywomanHerOwnHistorian, . PenandInkWarriors,–, . CountrywomeninCaptivity,–, . AViewfromtheMountain,–, . TheImperativeofHistoricalInquiry,–, . RightingtheWrongsofHistory,–, . ModernsConfronttheCivilWar,–, . EverythingThatRisesMustConverge, Notes, Bibliography, Index, Illustrations LoulaKendallRogers,, LoulaKendallRogers, ‘‘AFifteenthAmendmentTakingHisCropstoMarket,’’ ‘‘Glendaire,’’ ‘‘TheNegroQuartersatGlendaire,’’ ‘‘‘Allowme,’saidCaptainThomas,’’ MaryNoaillesMurfree, ‘‘InamassiveElizabethanchair...,’’ GeneralJamesandHelenDortchLongstreet,, EllenGlasgow, ‘‘Therewasanicheinasmallalcove,’’ ‘‘Betty,’’ ‘‘[Christopher]stood,bareheaded,’’ MaryJohnston, ‘‘TheLovers,’’ ‘‘StonewallJackson,’’ ‘‘TheBloodyAngle,’’ HelenDortchLongstreet,, Acknowledgments ThisprojectbeganasadoctoraldissertationatEmoryUniversityunderthedi- rectionofElizabethFox-Genovese.Itbenefitedimmeasurablyfromherattentive reading,keenhistoricalsense,andmanyhelpfulsuggestions.Betseycontinues tobeanimportantmentorandfriend;Icannotpossiblythankherenoughforall thatshehasdoneformeovertheyears.IalsothankPatrickAllitt,DanCarter, EugeneD.Genovese,JackKirby,MichaelO’Brien,andJamesRoark,allofwhom readallorportionsofthisworkandofferedinsightfulcriticism. Many archivists and librarians have provided me with much-needed assis- tance.IwouldliketosingleoutthestaffsattheAtlantaHistoryCenter,Duke University,EmoryUniversity,theSouthernHistoricalCollection,andtheUni- versity of Virginia for their help along the way. I am particularly indebted to David Moltke-Hansen, who listened to me drone on about his project during mystaysinChapelHill.GingerCain,BarbaraMann,LindaMatthews,Naomi Nelson,andKathyShoemakerprovedimportantallieswhileIworkedinEmory University’sSpecialCollectionsandofferedmesteadyemploymentduringthose leangraduateschoolyears. IamgratefultotheAmericanHistoricalAssociation,theManuscriptSociety, andDukeUniversityforpartiallyfundingmyresearch. Manyfriendsandfamilymembersofferedmeinvaluablemoralsupport.Susan Anderson and Mark Ledden were always ready to suggest diversionary tactics todrawmeoutofthelibrary.JeffYoungmadesurethatIreturnedtomywork. VatePowellprovidedplacesformetostayduringmyresearchtripstoBoston, Charlottesville,andNewYork.Moreimportant,hehasseenmethroughrough times,andforthatIamforevergrateful.MargaretStoreyandJonathanHeller ix
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