The Confederate belle / Giselle Roberts.
Record details
- ISBN: 0826214649
- ISBN: 9780826214645
- Physical Description: xi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2003.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-237) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | When I am grown : the Southern belle in Mississippi and Louisiana -- The trumpet of war is sounding : young ladies respond to the cause -- Keeping house : the Southern belle in the Confederate household -- The Confederate belle -- How has the mighty fallen : defeat in Mississippi and Louisiana -- The Yankees are coming -- Our slaves are gone -- The Confederate belle in defeat, 1865-1870. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | E 628 .R63 2003 | 30775305518046 | General Collection | Available | - |
Electronic resources
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The Confederate Belle
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While southern belles have often attracted romance writers, they have generally repelled serious historians. Roberts (La Trobe University, Australia), however, demonstrates that these elite young women left diaries and letters that say a great deal about a society in crisis during the Civil War. Focusing on Anglo families in the states of Mississippi and Louisiana, she argues that belles endured the hardships of war, which forced them to act in ways that contradicted the belle ideal, because they were able to reimagine their behavior as enhancing family honor. Insisting that women contributed by their activities to family honor and were not simply recipients of honor given by males, Roberts argues that the sense of self-worth honor bestowed, more than the material privileges that came from elite status, impelled belles to try to restore the prewar southern hierarchy at war's end. Roberts's carefully nuanced study, sensitive to the tensions in changing social roles, brings a long-needed generational perspective to the study of the war's impact. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Libraries collecting in women's history, the South, and the Civil War. P. F. Field Ohio University