Tomorrow is another day : the woman writer in the South, 1859-1936 /

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Author / Creator:Jones, Anne Goodwyn.
Imprint:Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, ©1981.
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 413 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12466347
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ISBN:0585319413
9780585319414
080710776X
9780807107768
9780807108666
0807108669
0807141402
9780807141403
0807108669
9780807141403
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-401) and index.
English.
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Summary:From the mid-nineteenth century through at least the first half of the twentieth, the southern code of appropriate feminine behavior required that women depend on sources outside themselves for sustenance, direction, and expression. The chivalric ideal that placed the southern lady on a pedestal often created within her gracious and gentle exterior a turmoil of frustration, confusion, and resentment.This concept of upper middle-class, white southern womanhood forms an important part of the imaginative expression of the southern women writers whose works and lives form the subject matter of thi.
Other form:Print version: Jones, Anne Goodwyn. Tomorrow is another day. Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, ©1981 0807108669