Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War

by Elizabeth Young

Book Overview

In a study that will radically shift our understanding of Civil War literature, Elizabeth Young shows that American women writers have been profoundly influenced by the Civil War and that, in turn, their works have contributed powerfully to conceptions of the war and its aftermath. Offering fascinating reassessments of works by white writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, and Margaret Mitchell and African-American writers including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226960889
• ISBN13: 9780226960883
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"