Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South - Brossura

Bruce, Dickson D.

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ISBN 10: 0292770189 ISBN 13: 9780292770188

Casa editrice: Univ of Texas Pr, 1979

Riassunto

This provocative book draws from a variety of sources—literature, politics, folklore, social history—to attempt to set Southern beliefs about violence in a cultural context. According to Dickson D. Bruce, the control of violence was a central concern of antebellum Southerners. Using contemporary sources, Bruce describes Southerners’ attitudes as illustrated in their duels, hunting, and the rhetoric of their politicians. He views antebellum Southerners as pessimistic and deeply distrustful of social relationships and demonstrates how this world view impelled their reliance on formal controls to regularize human interaction. The attitudes toward violence of masters, slaves, and “plain-folk”—the three major social groups of the period—are differentiated, and letters and family papers are used to illustrate how Southern child-rearing practices contributed to attitudes toward violence in the region. The final chapter treats Edgar Allan Poe as a writer who epitomized the attitudes of many Southerners before the Civil War.

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• Editore: Univ of Texas Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0292770189
• ISBN 13: 9780292770188
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 322