Blood and Irony(English, Paperback, Gardner Sarah E.)

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Blood and Irony(English, Paperback, Gardner Sarah E.) is written by Gardner Sarah E. and published by The University of North Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 080785767X (ISBN 10) and 9780807857670 (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, Sarah Gardner argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped define and reshape southern identity. She considers such well-known authors as Caroline Gordon, Ellen Glasgow, and Margaret Mitchell and also recovers works by lesser-known writers such as Mary Ann Cruse, Mary Noailles Murfree, and Varina Davis. Gardner reveals the existence of a strong community of Confederate women who were conscious of their shared effort to define a new and compelling vision of the southern war experience. In demonstrating the influence of this vision, Gardner highlights the role of the written word in defining a new cultural identity for the postbellum South.