The Field of Honor : Essays on Southern Character and American Identity /

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Collected scholarship on the history and evolution of moral standards and its role in southern society.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hagstette, Todd (Editor ), Mayfield, John, 1945- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Manners and customs.
Honor.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Honneur > États-Unis (Sud)
Honor > Southern States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Moeurs et coutumes > 1865-
Southern States > Social life and customs > 1865-
Southern States > Social life and customs > 1775-1865.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I CHALLENGING HONOR
  • THE MARKETPLACE
  • Marketplace of Values: Honor and Enterprise in the Old South / John Mayfield
  • To Civilize King Cottons Realm: William Gilmore Simms's Chivalric Quest / David Moltke-Hansen
  • Bushels of Corn, Tubs of Trouble: Measuring Honor at the Pendleton Farmer's Society, 1823
  • 1824 / Kathleen M. Hilliard
  • "A Very Honorable Man in His Trading": Honor, Credit Reporting, and the Market Economy in Antebellum Charleston / Amanda R. Mushal
  • pt. II HONOR, VIOLENCE, AND THE LAW
  • Writing the Duel: Rhetorical Negotiation and the Language of Honor in the Nineteenth-Century South / Todd Hagstette
  • Honorable Death? The Stuart-Bennett Duel of 1819 / Matthew A. Byron
  • "Not a Judicial Act, Yet a Judicious One": Honor, Office, and Democracy / Christopher Michael Curtis
  • Subversive Rhetoric of Honor and Illegality in Thomas Nelson Page's "Marse Chan" / Bradley Johnson
  • pt. III DEFINING THE MAN
  • HONOR AND CHARACTER
  • "The Honor of New England": Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Cilley-Graves Duel of 1838 / Robert S. Levine
  • Pursuits of Character: Rethinking Honor among Antebellum Southern College Students / Timothy J. Williams
  • "The Deceivingest Fellow": Honor, Respectability, and the Crisis of Character in the Old South / Lawrence T. McDonnell
  • "He Ordered the First Gun Fired & He Resigned First": James Chesnut, Southern Honor, and Emotion / Anna Koivusalo
  • pt. IV DEFINING THE OTHER
  • HONOR AND SHAME
  • "The Prisoner ... Thinks a Great Deal of Her Virtue": Enslaved Female Honor, Shame, and Infanticide in Antebellum Virginia / Jeff Forret
  • "Tattling Is Far More Common Here": Gossip, Ostracism, and Reputation in the Old South / Brenda Faverty
  • "Early-Acquired Superstition": Conjure and the Attempted Redefinition of Racial Honor / Jeffrey E. Anderson
  • pt. V PERSISTENCE OF HONOR
  • "The Secret of Vengeance": Honor and Revenge in Andrew Lytle's The Long Night / Sarah E. Gardner
  • Iron Chests: Honor and Manhood in Southern Evangelicalism / Edward R. Crowther
  • Honor and the Rhetoric of Conservatism in Twenty-First-Century America / Emily S. Bruce.

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