Serafine, Amelia (2016) ""He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 41-55 Topic history United States of America Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Augusta Jane Evans death war/armed forces religion/spirituality gender Edward Bulwer-Lytton readers