Bertram Wyatt-Brown: Southern Honor

Cover: 9780195325171 | Southern Honor | Ethics and Behavior in the Old South | Wyatt-Brown

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A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as a work of enormous imagination and enterprise and in The New York Times as an important, original book, Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal documents, letters, diaries, and newspaper columns,Wyatt-Brown offers fascinating examples to illuminate the dynamics of Southern life throughout the antebellum period.

Über den Autor

Bertram Wyatt-Brown is Richard J. Milbauer Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida and a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University. The author of House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family and The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, he is past president of the Southern Historical Association, the Society for Historians of Early American History, and the St. George Tucker Society. He lives in Baltimore.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

Part One: Origins and Definitions

1: Honor in Literary Perspective

2: Primal Honor: Valor, Blood, and Bonding

3: Primal Honor: The Tensions of Patriarchy

4: Gentility

Part Two: Family and Gender Behavior

5: Fathers, Mothers, and Progeny

6: Male Youth and Honor

7: A Young Man's Career: Cultural and Familial Limits

8: Strategies of Courtship and Marriage

9: Women in a Man's World: Role and Self-Image

10: Law, Property, and Male Dominance

11: Male Custom in Family Life

12: Status, Law, and Sexual Misconduct

Part Three: Structures of Rivalry and Social Control

13: Personal Strategies and Community Life: Hospitality, Gambling, and Combat

14: Honor, Shame, and Justice in a Slavocracy

15: Policing Slave Society: Insurrectionary Scares

16: Charivari and Lynch Law

17: The Anatomy of a Wife-Killing

List of Abbreviations and Short Titles

Notes

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780195325171
ISBN-10:	0195325176
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wyatt-Brown, Bertram
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	203 x 133 x 37 mm
Von/Mit:	Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.11.2007
Gewicht:	0,794 kg