Love and duty : Confederate widows and the emotional politics of loss / Angela Esco Elder.
| Author/creator |
Elder, Angela Esco |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022] |
| Description | 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford UNC Press Titles |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | Civil War America Civil War America (Series) ^A325557 |
| Abstract | "Between 1861 and 1865, approximately 200,000 women were widowed by the deaths of Civil War soldiers. They recorded their experiences in diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and pension applications. In Love and Duty, Angela Esco Elder draws on these materials--as well as songs, literary works, and material objects like mourning gowns--to explore white Confederate widows' stories, examining the records of their courtships, marriages, loves, and losses to understand their complicated relationship with the Confederate state. Elder shows how, in losing their husbands, many women acquired significant cultural capital, which positioned them as unlikely actors to gain political influence"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021046313 |
| ISBN | 9781469667737 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9781469667744 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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