The Rhetoric of Rebel Women: Civil War Diaries and Confederate Persuasion

by Kimberly Harrison

During the American Civil War, southern white women found themselves speaking and acting in unfamiliar and tumultuous circumstances. With the war at their doorstep, women who supported the war effort took part in defining what it meant to be, and to behave as, a Confederate through their verbal and nonverbal rhetorics. Though most did not speak from the podium, they viewed themselves as participants in the war effort, indicating that what they did...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809332574
• ISBN13: 9780809332571
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"