Название: Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss (Civil War America)
Автор: Angela Esco Elder
Издательство: University of North Carolina Press
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 240
Размер: 15,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Between 1861 and 1865, approximately 200,000 women were widowed by the deaths of Civil War soldiers. They recorded their experiences in diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and pension applications. In Love and Duty, Angela Esco Elder draws on these materials―as well as songs, literary works, and material objects like mourning gowns―to explore white Confederate widows' stories, examining the records of their courtships, marriages, loves, and losses to understand their complicated relationship with the Confederate state.