Blood & Irony

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Blood & Irony is written by Sarah E. Gardner and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807828181 (ISBN 10) and 9780807828182 (ISBN 13).

During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining varied historical and literary sources, this book argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped define and reshape southern identity.