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| Title: |
'Lonely lives are not necessarily joyless': Augusta Jane Evans's Macaria and the creation of a place for single womanhood in the Postwar South |
| Author: |
Gross, Jennifer Lynn |
| Appeared in: |
American nineteenth century history |
| Paging: | Volume 2 (2001) nr. 1 pages 33-52 |
| Year: |
2001 |
| Contents: |
This essay re-examines Augusta Jane Evans's Civil War novel Macaria; or Altars of Sacrifice. Citing its adherence to the traditional form of the domestic novel, the historical context in which it was written, the realities of Evans's own life, and the body of her earlier and later works, it argues against literary critics' assessments that Evans's wartime tome was a proto-feminist or feminist novel, a precursor to the works of Kate Chopin. Rather, Evans was a traditional author who adhered to the gender prescriptions of her day, and Macaria was a recognition of the social ramifications of the war in the South. It was a call to the people of the South to expand their definition of true Southern womanhood to include the many women who would be widowed or left without the opportunity to marry by the Civil War's devastation of the region's male population. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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