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Women's Diaries from the Civil War South: A Literary-Historical Reading

Women's Diaries from the Civil War South: A Literary-Historical Reading

Talley, Sharon

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 1621905977
ISBN13: 9781621905974
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Sep 25 2020
Pages: 575
Weight: 2.75
Height: 1.80 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Traditionally, narratives of war have been male, Sharon Talley writes. In the pages that follow, she goes on to disrupt this tradition, offering close readings and comparative studies of fourteen women's diaries from the Civil War era that illuminate women's experiences in the Confederacy during the war.

While other works highlighting individual diaries exist--and Talley notes that there has been a virtual explosion of published primary sources by women in recent years--this is the first effort of comprehensive synthesis of women's Civil War diaries to attempt to characterize them as a distinct genre. Deeply informed by autobiographical theory, as well as literary and social history, Talley's presentation of multiple diaries from women of differing backgrounds illuminates complexities and disparities across female wartime experiences rather than perpetuating overgeneralizations gleaned from a single diary or

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