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Author Young, Elizabeth, 1964-

Title Disarming the nation : women's writing and the American Civil War / Elizabeth Young.

Imprint Chicago, [Ill.] : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.9358 Y84d 1999    ---  Available
Description xvi, 389 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Women in culture and society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-373) and index.
Contents Topsy-turvy : civil war and Uncle Tom's cabin -- A wound of one's own : Louisia 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.
Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
ISBN 0226960889 (pbk.)
0226960870 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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