The rhetoric of rebel women : Civil War diaries and Confederate persuasion / Kimberly Harrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, Kimberly, 1969-

Series:

Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series

Studies in rhetorics and feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Confederate States of America--Diaries.

Women.

Rhetoric--Confederate States of America.

Rhetoric.

English language--19th century--Rhetoric.

English language.

Women--Language.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.

United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the American Civil War, southern white women found themselves speaking and acting in unfamiliar and tumultuous circumstances.With the war at their doorstep, women who supported the war effort took part in defining what it meant to be, and to behave as, a Confederate through their verbal and nonverbal rhetorics.

Contents:

Dangerous words/domestic spaces: invading union forces and southern women's rhetorical efforts in self-protection

A ladylike resistance? Finding the time, place, and means for voicing political allegiances

Guarded tongues/secure communities: rhetorical responsibilities and "everyday" audiences

Public voices/divine audiences: Confederate women's prayers during the American Civil War

Audiences victorious, defeated, & free: rhetorical purpose in the immediate postwar south.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8093-3258-2

OCLC:

858764950