Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters - Rilegato

Stowe, Steven M.

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ISBN 10: 0801833884 ISBN 13: 9780801833885

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1987

Riassunto

Steven M. Stowe examines three types of ritual central to the elite planter culture of the pre-Civil War South: the affair of honor, courtship, and coming of age. Using these rituals as forman "maps" of Southern culture, Stowe shows how each embodies themes of authority, sexuality, and kinship, and he explores the full significance of such events as duels, cotillions, and the departure of a young person for school. In private lives these social rituals were embraced or resisted and ultimately shaped into everyday experience. Stowe;s biographies of three families show that the boundaries of private and social life became difficult to draw. The resulting tension between expectations and their fulfillment, between power and intimacy, lies at the heart of planter sulture in the Old South.

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Recensione

"Impossible for a brief review to do justice to this intricately woven book, filled as it is with intriguing detail that, whatever it reveals about the collective consciousness, is guaranteed to engage the interest of any committed historian of the South." -- American Historical Review

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801833884
• ISBN 13: 9780801833885
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile