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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Sizer, Lyde Cullen. Political work of Northern women writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000 (DLC) 99087015 (OCoLC)43083263 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lyde Cullen Sizer |
ISBN: | 0807860980 9780807860984 0807825549 9780807825549 0807848859 9780807848852 |
OCLC Number: | 52840193 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 348 pages) : illustrations |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Introduction: My Sphere Rounds Out: Northern Women and the Written War -- Ch. 1. Rowing against Wind and Tide: How Women Wrote. Wind and Tide: The Obstacles and Inspiration of Political Work. Nine Rowers. New England Mothers: Introducing Child, Stowe, and Fern. Northern Borders: Introducing Southworth, Harper, and Davis. New England Daughters: Introducing Hamilton, Alcott, and Phelps -- Ch. 2. Raising a Voice: The Civil War Begins in the 1850s. Stowe and Southworth: Slavery and the Proper Work of White Women. Fern and Oakes: Independent versus Influential Womanhood. Child versus Wise and Mason: Speaking for the North. Jacobs and Davis: The Web of Racial and Wage Slavery -- Ch. 3. What Can Woman Do?: The Rhetoric of Unity, 1861-1863. What Women Did. Leave-Taking and Waiting: Early Stories of Patriotism. A Woman-Centered Understanding of War: Delphine P. Baker and Metta V. Victor. The Voice of Tribulation Periwinkle: Introducing Women-Nurses. Political Work through Moral Suasion: Abolitionists Speak Out -- Ch. 4. A Woman's Read: Crisis at Midwar. Economic Struggle and Wartime Disillusionment. To Upheave and Overturn: Gail Hamilton Goes to War. Class Is Another War: Fern, Townsend, and Davis -- Ch. 5. Trying to Find Places: The Question of African American Freedom in the Late War. The Context. Emancipation Rhetoric and Fanny Kemble's Journal: The War Turns a Corner. He Is Every Where: Antislavery at Midwar. A Shifting Subject: African American Men. What Will We Do with the Negro? Wartime Strategies for Reconstruction -- Ch. 6. Woman's Part of Glory: Love, Death, and Work in Women's Writing, 1863-1865. Woman's Place in War: Women-Nurses. Women on the Fictional Battlefront. A Place for a Woman: Nurses Make Their Way. A Crisis of Faith: An Internal Critique -- Ch. 7. The Times Which Form History: Writing the War, 1865-1868. Writing Women and the War: Transitions. Women's Histories: Reinscribing the "Universal" Woman for Posterity. Nursing Histories: Women's Authority and Class Conflict. A Woman's War: Postwar Novels and Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth's: How He Won Her -- Ch. 8. Still Waiting: Race and the Politics of Reconstruction. Emphasizing Difference: Racial Whiteness in Postwar Fiction. An Africanist Presence. The Politics of Intermarriage. Turning Points -- Ch. 9. A New Emancipation: Interpreting the War for Tomorrow. A Call for Women. The "Coming Woman": Alcott and the Woman Question. Woman As a Class: Phelps and the Labor Question. The Threshold of a New Era: Harper and the Negro Question. |
Series Title: | Civil War America. |
Responsibility: | Lyde Cullen Sizer. |
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