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“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

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dc.contributor.authorGómez Galisteo, Carmen
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-19T17:19:09Z
dc.date.available2025-11-19T17:19:09Z
dc.date.issued2025-11-13
dc.descriptionThe 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
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dc.description.abstracthis 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.en
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dc.identifier.citationGómez-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
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/h14110220
dc.identifier.issn2076-0787
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/30891
dc.journal.issue11
dc.journal.titleHumanities
dc.journal.volume14
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Filología
dc.relation.departmentFilologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject5705.10 Sociolingüística
dc.subject.keywordsSouthern women writersen
dc.subject.keywordsCivil War fictionen
dc.subject.keywordsfemale illness and deathen
dc.subject.keywordsSouthern belleen
dc.subject.keywordsSouthern ladyen
dc.subject.keywordsresilience and transformationen
dc.subject.keywordsdecline of the antebellum Southen
dc.title“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 Winden
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