Mary Chesnuts Civil War

Author : Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300029796
Total Pages : 964 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Chesnut's Civil War written by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy

Author : Julia A. Stern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226773310
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic written by Julia A. Stern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated literary history and the questions that attend it—which edition represents the real Chesnut? To what genre does this text belong?—may explain why the document largely has, until now, been overlooked in literary studies. Julia A. Stern’s critical analysis returns Chesnut to her rightful place among American writers. In Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Epic, Stern argues that the revised diary offers the most trenchant literary account of race and slavery until the work of Faulkner and that, along with his Yoknapatawpha novels, it constitutes one of the two great Civil War epics of the American canon. By restoring Chesnut’s 1880s revision to its complex, multidecade cultural context, Stern argues both for Chesnut’s reinsertion into the pantheon of nineteenth-century American letters and for her centrality to the literary history of women’s writing as it evolved from sentimental to tragic to realist forms.

Author : Mary Boykin Chesnut
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101513985
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Chesnut's Diary written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unrivalled account of the American Civil War from the Confederate perspective. One of the most compelling personal narratives of the Civil War, Mary Chesnut's Diary was written between 1861 and 1865. As the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner and the wife of an aide to the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, Chesnut was well acquainted with the Confederacy's prominent players and-from the very first shots in Charleston, South Carolina-diligently recorded her impressions of the conflict's most significant moments. One of the most frequently cited memoirs of the war, Mary Chesnut's Diary captures the urgency and nuance of the period in an epic rich with commentary on race, status, and power within a nation divided. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Diary from Dixie written by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the author's Civil War diary from February 18, 1861, to June 26, 1865. She was an eyewitness to many historic events as she accompanied her husband to significant sites of the Civil War.

Author : Elisabeth S. Muhlenfeld
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807152544
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Boykin Chesnut written by Elisabeth S. Muhlenfeld and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Muhlenfeld traces the life (particularly the last 20 years) of South Carolina socialite and writer Chesnut (1823-1886), best-known today for her excellent firsthand account of life in the Confederate States of America, A Diary from Dixie (republished in 1981 as Mary Chesnut's Civil War). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Author : Mary Boykin Chesnut
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195035131
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Private Mary Chesnut written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut. The ideal diarist, Mary Chesnut was at the right place at the right time with the right connections. Daughter of one senator from South Carolina and wife of another, she had kin and friends all over the Confederacy and knew intimately its political and military leaders. At Montgomery when the new nation was founded, at Charleston when the war started, and at Richmond during many crises, she traveled extensively during the war. She watched a world "literally kicked to pieces" and left the most vivid account we have of the death throes of a society. The diaries, filled with personal revelations and indiscretions, are indispensable to an appreciation of our most famous Southern literary insight into the Civil War experience.

Author : Mary A. DeCredico
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780945612476
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Boykin Chesnut written by Mary A. DeCredico and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into the plantation gentry of South Carolina, granted the advantages of wealth, social position, and education by virtue of her family and her marriage to another prominent South Carolina family, Mary Chesnut has emerged as one of the key figures in American history, but not because of a career, her family, or her involvement in a humanitarian cause. Rather, Chesnut's significance comes from her extensive diary. Her commentary and reminiscences about the era provide an excellent window into the life and death of the Confederate nation. Her keen insight into political, economic, and social developments makes her an excellent source to understand the Southern homefront during the American Civil War. Professor Mary DeCredico uses Chesnut's life to address the role of women in the South; the ideology and leadership of the Southern white elite; and how Southern women in general, and Chesnut in particular, viewed the institution of slavery. Furthermore, DeCredico shows how Mary Chesnut's privileged position gave her an ideal perspective for observing and commenting on the events of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Author : Mary Boykin Chesnut
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813920580
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Novels written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short, unfinished novels address a wide range of subjects related to women and serve as an extension of the valuable source material found in the diaries, revealing much about southern history and culture, gender roles, slave-mistress relations, childhood, education, the experiences of westward migration, and the impact of the Civil War on private lives and relationships.".

Author : Robert L. Paquette
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813919522
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery, Secession, and Southern History written by Robert L. Paquette and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heir to changing views of slavery in the US South sparked by Eugene Genovese's Marxist analyses, ten original essays probe philosophical, socioeconomic, and literary issues of slavery. Appends 1990s interviews with Genovese and a list of his principal writings. Pacquette and Ferleger teach history at Hamilton College and Boston U., respectively. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807855737
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mothers of Invention written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.