Southern sons : becoming men in the new nation /
"Southern Sons, the first work in masculinity studies to concentrate on the early South, explores how young men of the southern gentry came of age between the 1790s and the 1820s. Lorri Glover examines how standards for manhood came about, how young men experienced them in the early South, and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2007.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The first duties of a southern boy
- Raising "self willed" sons
- The educational aspirations of southern families
- Creating southern schools for southern sons
- The (mis)behaviors of southern collegians
- The southern code of gentlemanly conduct
- Acting the part of a gentleman
- Supervising suitors
- Winning a wife
- Professions and the "circle about every man"
- Slaveholding and the destiny of the Republic's southern sons
- Epilogue.