PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide

Chapter 4: Early Nineteenth Century - Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-1886)

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Source: Documenting the American South - MBC

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Mary Chesnut's Civil War. edited by C. Vann Woodward. New Haven: Yale UP, 1981. E487 .C5

The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries. eds. C. Vann Woodward and Elisabeth Muhlenfeld. NY: Oxford, 1984.

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Hayhoe, George F. "Mary Boykin Chesnut: The Making of a Reputation." Mississippi Quarterly 35.1 (Wint 1981-1982): 60-72.

Holstein, Suzy C. "'Offering up Her Life': Confederate Women on the Altars of Sacrifice." Southern Studies 2.2 (Sumr 1991): 113-30.

Leadbetter, Ray. "Reticence in Diaries and Mary Chesnut's Civil War." Michigan Academician 27.1 (Jan 1995): 19-27.

McDonald, Kendra L. "The Creation of History and Myth in Mary Boykin Miller Chestnut's Civil War Narrative." DAI 57.10 (Apr 1997): DA9710620.

Mentzer, Melissa. "A Note on Textual Concerns in the Journals of Mary Chesnut." A-B:-Auto-Biography Studies 4.1 (Fall 1988): 53-56.

- - -. "Rewriting Herself: Mary Chesnut's Narrative Strategies." Connecticut Review 14.1 (Sprg 1992): 49-55.

Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth. Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1981.

Nulton, Karen S. "The Social Civil War." DAI 54.3 (Sep 1993): DA9321317.

O'Brien, Michael. "The Flight Down the Middle Walk: Mary Chesnut and the Forms of Observance." Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts. Eds. Anne G. Jones and Susan V. Donaldson. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1997. 109-31.

Stowe, Steven M. "City, Country, and the Feminine Voice." Intellectual Life in Antebellum Charleston. Eds. Michael O'Brien and Hansen D. Moltke. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1986. 295-324.

Woodward, C. Vann. "Mary Chesnut in Search of Her Genre." Yale Review 73.2 (Wint 1984): 199-209.

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Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 4: Early Nineteenth Century: Mary Boykin Chesnut." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. WWW URL: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/chesnut.html (provide page date or date of your login).
 

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