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2025-11-13
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his article examines how the Southern lady is represented in three major Southern women’s novels set during the American Civil War: Macaria (1864) by Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, The Battle-Ground (1902) by Ellen Glasgow, and Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell. Although separated by over seven decades and distinct historical perspectives—Wilson as a contemporary witness, Glasgow as a postwar observer, and Mitchell as a nostalgic inheritor—their works collectively shaped enduring images of the South in American popular culture. Through textual analysis, the study explores how each author depicts female endurance, illness, and mortality to symbolize both individual and social transformation. The heroines (Wilson’s Electra and Irene, Glasgow’s Betty Ambler, and Mitchell’s Scarlett O’Hara) embody resilience amid collapse, assuming active roles in the reconstruction of Southern identity. Their struggles reflect broader tensions between traditional femininity and emerging female agency. Ultimately, the article argues that portrayals of women’s frailty and death function as metaphors for the decline of the antebellum order and the inevitable demise of the Southern lady ideal, revealing illness and death as physical and cultural markers of the South’s transformation in war and its aftermath.
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The registered version of this article, first published in “Humanities, 14(11), 220", is available online at the publisher's website: MDPI, https://doi.org/10.3390/h14110220
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “Humanities, 14(11), 220", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: MDPI, https://doi.org/10.3390/h14110220
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “Humanities, 14(11), 220", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: MDPI, https://doi.org/10.3390/h14110220
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Southern women writers, Civil War fiction, female illness and death, Southern belle, Southern lady, resilience and transformation, decline of the antebellum South
Citación
Gómez-Galisteo, M. C. (2025). “A Girl Is Like a Flower. … If a Rough Wind Blows near Her, Her Bloom Is Faded”: The Southern Lady in Macaria, The Battle-Ground, and Gone with the Wind. Humanities, 14(11), 220. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14110220
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Facultad de Filología
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Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas