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Belles and Poets : Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women /

"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, p...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nitz, Julia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a "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 novels, especially works by Shakespeare and the British Romantic poets, in moments of uncertainty and crisis. While previous studies have overlooked or neglected such insertions of literature, regarding them as mere embellishments or signs of elite social status, Nitz reveals that literary references functioned as codes through which women diarists contemplated their roles in society, addressing topics related to slavery, Confederate politics, gender roles, and personal identity. Her innovative study of identity construction and literary intertextuality focuses on diaries written by the following women: Eliza Frances (Fanny) Andrews of Georgia (1840-1931), Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut of South Carolina (1823-1886), Malvina Sara Black Gist of South Carolina (1842-1930), Sarah Ida Fowler Morgan of Louisiana (1842-1909), Cornelia Peake McDonald of Virginia (1822-1909), Judith White Brockenbrough McGuire of Virginia (1813-1897), Sarah Katherine (Kate) Stone of Louisiana (1841-1907), and Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas of Georgia (1843-1907). Their diaries circulated among their associates in postwar commemoration associations and several saw publication. The public acclaim they received helped shape the collective memory of the war and contributed to asserting white supremacy and legitimizing racial segregation. Comparing and contrasting their own lives to literary precedents and fictional role models helped the diarists process the privations of war, the loss of family members, and the looming defeat of the Confederacy that called into question their perception of slavery as ordained by God. "Belles and Poets" establishes the extent to which literature offered a means of exploring ideas and convictions about class, gender, and racial hierarchies in the Civil War-era South. Nitz's work shows that literary allusions in wartime diaries chronicle the ways in which a group of southern women coped with the war and its potential threats to their way of life"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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