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Two Novels by Mary Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut
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Description for Two Novels by Mary Chesnut
hardcover. Intensely autobiographical novels, "The Captain and the Colonel" and "Two Years - or The Way We Lived Then" are Chesnut's fictionalized accounts of the world as women experienced it in the mid-19th century Civil War South. These short, unfinished novels address a range of subjects related to women. Series: Southern Texts Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; FC; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
As the well-educated and socially skilled wife of a prominent Confederate. Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-86) was ideally situated-and intellectually equipped-to record the narrative of daily life in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet while she is widely recognized for the significant contribution of her ""diaries,"" Mary Chesnut's other works chronicling her experiences in the Civil War South have remained-until now-unpublished and virtually unknown. Intensely autobiographical novels, The Captain and the Colonel and Two Years-or The Way We Lived Then are Chesnut's fictionalized accounts of the world as women experienced it in the mid-nineteenth-century South. These short, unfinished novels ... Read more
As the well-educated and socially skilled wife of a prominent Confederate. Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-86) was ideally situated-and intellectually equipped-to record the narrative of daily life in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet while she is widely recognized for the significant contribution of her ""diaries,"" Mary Chesnut's other works chronicling her experiences in the Civil War South have remained-until now-unpublished and virtually unknown. Intensely autobiographical novels, The Captain and the Colonel and Two Years-or The Way We Lived Then are Chesnut's fictionalized accounts of the world as women experienced it in the mid-nineteenth-century South. These short, unfinished novels ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Southern Texts Society
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813920580
SKU
V9780813920580
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About Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Chesnut's Civil War journals were published posthumously as Mary Chesnut's Civil War. Elizabeth Hanson (d. 1999) was the author of The American Indian in American Literature: A Study in Metaphor; Forever Thero; Race and Gender in Contemporary Native American Fiction; and the biographies Paula Gunn Allen and Margaret Mitchell. Elisabeth Muhlenfeld is President of Sweet Briar College, Mary Chesnut's ... Read more
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