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The Private Mary Chesnut
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Author : Mary Boykin Chesnut
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1984
The Private Mary Chesnut written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut. The ideal diarist, Mary Chesnut was at the right place at the right time with the right connections. Daughter of one senator from South Carolina and wife of another, she had kin and friends all over the Confederacy and knew intimately its political and military leaders. At Montgomery when the new nation was founded, at Charleston when the war started, and at Richmond during many crises, she traveled extensively during the war. She watched a world "literally kicked to pieces" and left the most vivid account we have of the death throes of a society. The diaries, filled with personal revelations and indiscretions, are indispensable to an appreciation of our most famous Southern literary insight into the Civil War experience.
Mary Chesnut S Civil War
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Author : Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1981-01-01
Mary Chesnut S Civil War written by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy
Mary Chesnut S Civil War
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Author : Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Mary Chesnut S Civil War written by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
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Author : Elisabeth S. Muhlenfeld
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1992-09-01
Mary Boykin Chesnut written by Elisabeth S. Muhlenfeld and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-09-01 with History categories.
"In her admirable biography of Mary Chesnut, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld has American literature as well as American history in her debt." -- C. Vann Woodward Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823--1886) is known today for her excellent firsthand account of life in the Confederate States of America. A Diary from Dixie (republished in 1981 as Mary Chesnut's Civil War)is far more than a simple diary, however, for Mrs. Chesnut's drawing room was a social center for many of the most prominent political and military figures in the Confederacy. Elisabeth Muhlenfeld's expert biography utilizes Mrs. Chesnut's autobiographical writings, her papers, and those of her family, as well as published sources. It traces her life in South Carolina from her childhood, as the daughter of a governor and United States senator, through her schooling and her marriage to James Chesnut, Jr., the son of a wealthy South Carolina planter. During the war her husband served as an aide to P. G. T. Beauregard and to Jefferson Davis, achieving the rank of general. Muhlenfeld emphasizes Mary Chesnut's last twenty years, when she helped her family through the intricacies of repaying immense debts incurred during the Civil War, rebuilding wrecked homes, and reestablishing some measure of order and security. These were also the years of her serious writing. She experimented with fiction, writing three novels and translating others from the French; and in 1881 she began the last revisions of her Civil War journal. In the descriptive passages, characterizations, thematic patterns, and overall structure of the revised journal, Chesnut employed the techniques she had learned by writing fiction. Besides adding to our knowledge of this unusual nineteenth-century southern woman, Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography enhances our knowledge of the history of women in general as it delineates the transformation of a wartime diary into the chronicle that remains a major document in southern history.
Mary Chesnut S Civil War Epic
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Author : Julia A. Stern
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-01-15
Mary Chesnut S Civil War Epic written by Julia A. Stern and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated literary history and the questions that attend it—which edition represents the real Chesnut? To what genre does this text belong?—may explain why the document largely has, until now, been overlooked in literary studies. Julia A. Stern’s critical analysis returns Chesnut to her rightful place among American writers. In Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Epic, Stern argues that the revised diary offers the most trenchant literary account of race and slavery until the work of Faulkner and that, along with his Yoknapatawpha novels, it constitutes one of the two great Civil War epics of the American canon. By restoring Chesnut’s 1880s revision to its complex, multidecade cultural context, Stern argues both for Chesnut’s reinsertion into the pantheon of nineteenth-century American letters and for her centrality to the literary history of women’s writing as it evolved from sentimental to tragic to realist forms.
Private Mary Chesnut The Unpublished Civil War Diaries
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Author : Comer Vann Woodward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Private Mary Chesnut The Unpublished Civil War Diaries written by Comer Vann Woodward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Confederate States of America categories.
A Diary From Dixie
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Author : Mary Boykin Chesnut
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1980
A Diary From Dixie written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.
Mary Chesnut S Diary
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Author : Mary Boykin Chesnut
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-04-26
Mary Chesnut S Diary written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-26 with History categories.
An unrivalled account of the American Civil War from the Confederate perspective. One of the most compelling personal narratives of the Civil War, Mary Chesnut's Diary was written between 1861 and 1865. As the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner and the wife of an aide to the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, Chesnut was well acquainted with the Confederacy's prominent players and-from the very first shots in Charleston, South Carolina-diligently recorded her impressions of the conflict's most significant moments. One of the most frequently cited memoirs of the war, Mary Chesnut's Diary captures the urgency and nuance of the period in an epic rich with commentary on race, status, and power within a nation divided. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
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Author : Mary A. DeCredico
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1996
Mary Boykin Chesnut written by Mary A. DeCredico and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born into the plantation gentry of South Carolina, granted the advantages of wealth, social position, and education by virtue of her family and her marriage to another prominent South Carolina family, Mary Chesnut has emerged as one of the key figures in American history, but not because of a career, her family, or her involvement in a humanitarian cause. Rather, Chesnut's significance comes from her extensive diary. Her commentary and reminiscences about the era provide an excellent window into the life and death of the Confederate nation. Her keen insight into political, economic, and social developments makes her an excellent source to understand the Southern homefront during the American Civil War. Professor Mary DeCredico uses Chesnut's life to address the role of women in the South; the ideology and leadership of the Southern white elite; and how Southern women in general, and Chesnut in particular, viewed the institution of slavery. Furthermore, DeCredico shows how Mary Chesnut's privileged position gave her an ideal perspective for observing and commenting on the events of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Mary S Chestnut S Civil War
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Author : Mary Boykin Miller Chestnut
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Mary S Chestnut S Civil War written by Mary Boykin Miller Chestnut and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with categories.