Intimacy and Power in the Old South

Ritual in the Lives of the Planters
Erscheinungsjahr 1990
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4113-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 547 g

Reihe: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stowe, Steven M.

Stowe, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Ritual: Between Indulgence and Control
Chapter 1. The Affair of Honor: Character and Esteem
Chapter 2. Courtship: Sexuality and Feeling
Chapter 3. Coming of Age: Duty and Satisfaction
Part II. Family: The Routines of Intimacy
Chapter 4. The Gastons: The Treaure of Offspring
Chapter 5. The Lacys: The Thing, Not Its Vision
Chapter 6. The Kings: Waiting for Father
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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