Belles and poets : intertextuality in the Civil War diaries of white southern women / Julia Nitz.
"In "Belles and Poets," Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing specifically on how they made sense of the world around them through references to literary texts. She finds that many diarists incorporated allusions to poems, plays, and novel...
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| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Southern literary studies.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 281 pages. |
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Intertextuality in the Civil War diaries of white southern women |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Women Diarists, Civil War Experience, and the Literary Influence
- Literary Allusions in White Southern Women's Civil War Diaries
- The North, the South, and the Confederacy as Frameworks of Identity
- Literary Explorations of Slavery Ideology
- Literary Role Models: Antiheroines and Woman Warriors.
- Women Diarists, Civil War Experience, and the Literary Influence
- Literary Allusions in White Southern Women's Civil War Diaries
- The North, the South, and the Confederacy as Frameworks of Identity
- Literary Explorations of Slavery Ideology
- Literary Role Models: Antiheroines and Woman Warriors
- Conclusion.