Article Title

Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic

Authors

Hugh Ruppersburg

ISBN

978-0-226-77328-5

Price

$45.00

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Abstract

The Literary Value of Mary Chestnut

Julia Stern does not treat Mary Chesnut’s Civil War narrative as a documentary record of the conflict. Instead she sees it as a “consciously crafted work of art" that is “committed less to historical precision than to the accurate representation of h....

Recommended Citation

Ruppersburg, Hugh (2010) "Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 12 : Iss. 3 .
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol12/iss3/10