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OverviewWhen the Civil War began in 1861 Lucy Rebecca Buck was the eighteen-year-old daughter of a prosperous planter, living on her family's plantation in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. On Christmas Day of that year she began a diary which she would keep for the duration of the war, during which time troops were quartered in her home and battles were literally waged in her front yard. This extraordinary chronicle mirrors the experience of many women torn between loyalty to the Confederate cause and dissatisfaction with the unrealistic ideology of white southern womanhood. In powerful, unsentimental language, Buck's diary reveals her anger and ambivalence about the challenges thrust upon her by the upheaval of her self, her family, and the world as she knew it. This document provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ""shadows on the heart"" of both Lucy Buck and the American South. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lucy Rebecca Buck , Elizabeth R. BaerPublisher: University of Georgia Press Imprint: University of Georgia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780820340906ISBN 10: 0820340901 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 28 February 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsYields a rare insight into the heart of one Southern woman whose primary pre-war purpose was to serve her societal role.-- Civil War History Yields a rare insight into the heart of one Southern woman whose primary pre-war purpose was to serve her societal role. -- Civil War History Author InformationElizabeth R. Baer is professor of English and genocide studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. She has published widely on women s literature and Holocaust fiction and memoirs. Baer's books include ""The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for Women"" (coedited with Hester Baer) and ""Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust"" (coedited with Myrna Goldenberg). Her forthcoming book, ""The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction,"" traces the intertextual appropriation of the golem legend in contemporary Jewish-American fiction, graphic novels, comics, ""The X-Files,"" and films."" Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |