The Rhetoric of Rebel Women : Civil War Diaries and Confederate Persuasion /

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During the American Civil War, southern white women found themselves speaking and acting in unfamiliar and tumultuous circumstances. With the war at their doorstep, women who supported the war effort took part in defining what it meant to be, and to behave as, a Confederate through their verbal and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harrison, Kimberly
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women > Language.
Women.
Social aspects.
Rhetoric.
English language > Rhetoric.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Femmes > Langage.
Anglais (Langue) > 19e siecle > Rhetorique.
Rhetorique > États confederes d'Amerique.
Femmes > États confederes d'Amerique > Journaux intimes.
English language > 19th century > Rhetoric.
Rhetoric > Confederate States of America.
Women > Confederate States of America > Diaries.
United States > Confederate States of America.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Aspect social.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women.
History.
Diaries.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : words of honor - evidence, exigence, and rhetorical selves
  • Dangerous words/domestic spaces : invading Union forces and southern women's rhetorical efforts in self-protection
  • A ladylike resistance? : finding the time, place, and means for voicing political allegiances
  • Guarded tongues/secure communities : rhetorical responsibilities and "everyday" audiences
  • Public voices/divine audiences : Confederate women's prayers during the American Civil War
  • Audiences victorious, defeated, and free : rhetorical purpose in the immediate postwar south
  • Conclusion.

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