How Long to Read Blood and Irony

By Sarah E. Gardner

How Long Does it Take to Read Blood and Irony?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read Blood and Irony by Sarah E. Gardner

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining varied historical and literary sources, Sarah Gardner argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the war and helped define and reshape southern identity. Gardner considers such well-known authors as Caroline Gordon, Ellen Glasgow, and Margaret Mitchell and also recovers works by lesser-known writers such as Mary Ann Cruse, Mary Noailles Murfree, and Varina Davis. In fiction, biographies, private papers, educational texts, historical writings, and through the work of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, southern white women sought to tell and preserve what they considered to be the truth about the war. But this truth varied according to historical circumstance and the course of the conflict. Only in the aftermath of defeat did a more unified vision of the southern cause emerge. Yet Gardner reveals the existence of a strong community of Confederate women who were conscious of their shared effort to define a new and compelling vision of the southern war experience. In demonstrating the influence of this vision, Gardner highlights the role of the written word in defining a new cultural identity for the postbellum South.

How long is Blood and Irony?

Blood and Irony by Sarah E. Gardner is 352 pages long, and a total of 88,704 words.

This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Blood and Irony Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read Blood and Irony aloud.

What Reading Level is Blood and Irony?

Blood and Irony is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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