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Author Young, Elizabeth, 1964-

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

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.9358 Y71D    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Women in culture and society
Women in culture and society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [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.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
ISBN 0226960870 cloth alkaline paper
0226960889 paperback
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