Love and duty

• Verfasst von: Elder, Angela Esco [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Love and duty
• Titelzusatz: Confederate widows and the emotional politics of loss
• Verf.angabe: Angela Esco Elder
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill NC
• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: 208 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Civil War America
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-6774-4
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-6773-7
• Schlagwörter: (s)Kriegerwitwe / (s)Witwe / (s)Bürgerkrieg
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Elder, Angela Esco: Love and Duty. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2022. - 1 online resource (223 pages)
• K10plus-PPN: 1772352942

Abstract

"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. Elder shows how, in losing their husbands, many women acquired significant cultural capital, which positioned them as unlikely actors to gain political influence"--