Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) - Softcover

Stowe, Prof Steven

 
9780801841132: Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801841135 ISBN 13: 9780801841132
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

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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Steven M. Stowe is associate professor of history at Indiana University.

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Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801841135
ISBN 13 
9780801841132
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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