03380nam 2200745 a 450 991078036570332120200520144314.0979-88-908721-6-61-4696-3605-00-8078-6098-0(CKB)111087027915530(EBL)413420(OCoLC)476237500(SSID)ssj0000223759(PQKBManifestationID)11190939(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223759(PQKBWorkID)10181881(PQKB)10775304(Au-PeEL)EBL413420(CaPaEBR)ebr10041256(CaONFJC)MIL929824(MiAaPQ)EBC413420(EXLCZ)9911108702791553019991216d2000 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe political work of Northern women writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872[electronic resource] /Lyde Cullen SizerChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20001 online resource (366 p.)Civil War AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-4885-9 0-8078-2554-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-332) and index.Acknowledgments; Introduction: My Sphere Rounds Out; 1. Rowing against Wind and Tide; 2. Raising a Voice; 3. What Can Woman Do?; 4. A Woman's Road; 5. Trying to Find Places; 6. Woman's Part of Glory; 7. The Times Which Form History; 8. Still Waiting; 9. A New Emancipation; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;This study explores the lives of nine Northern American female writers of the Civil War period. It examines how, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. The author shows how they and others used their writing to make sense of topics like war, womanhood and slavery.Civil War America.Authors, American19th centuryPolitical and social viewsPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAuthors and readersUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismPopular literatureUnited StatesHistory and criticismWomen authors, AmericanPolitical and social viewsUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Literature and the warUnited StatesPolitics and government1849-1877Authors, AmericanPolitical and social views.Politics and literatureHistoryAuthors and readersHistoryAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Popular literatureHistory and criticism.Women authors, AmericanPolitical and social views.810.9/358Sizer Lyde Cullen1539127MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780365703321The political work of Northern women writers and the Civil War, 1850-18723789766UNINA