Mary Chesnut's Civil War

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Idioma English

Publicado el 1981 por Yale University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-300-02459-3
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Número OCLC:
6487610
ASIN:
0300024592
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1847004

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The incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck "always to stumble in on the real show." Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the South's headlong plunge to ruin, and she left in her journals an unsurpassed account of the old regime's death throes, its moment of high drama in world history.

In her own circles—aristocratic, patriarchal, slave-holding—Mary Chesnut was a figure of heresy and of parado. She had a horror of slavery and called herself an abolitionist from early youth. Against male domination she expressed her rebellion in some of the most vehement feminist writing of her time: "There is no slave after all like a wife," she declared. A passionate participant in events, she was also a detached observer of all the strata of her society. The cast of characters that …

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