ENG 290 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, John Greenleaf Whittier
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Textbook: the imagined civil war- popular literature of the north & south 1861-1865 by alice fahs. Chapter 4- the feminized war: after the wars beginning, many stories and articles appearing in newspapers stressed women"s role in war, domestic labor. Preparing/packing provisions for the soldiers, sewing uniforms, knitting socks/mittens: supporting men"s enlistment. Seen as patriotic: presented flags to companies. Denounced war romance as bland and boring: tight connection between homefront and battlefront, more approving of women"s nursing, hospital sketches (1863) louisa may alcott.
