Southern honor : ethics and behavior in the old South /

Southern honor : ethics and behavior in the old South /

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Author / Creator:Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 1932-2012.
Edition:25th anniversary ed.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (xlii, 597 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Honor.
Civilization.
Honor.
Moral conditions.
Southern States -- Civilization.
Southern States -- Moral conditions.
Southern States.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11178446
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ISBN:9780199725625
0199725624
0195325176
0195325168
9780195325164
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Preface to Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition. Part One: Origins and Definitions. 1. Honor in Literary Perspective. 2. Primal Honor: Valor, Blood, and Bonding. 3. Primal Honor: The Tensions of Patriarchy. 4. Gentility. Part Two: Family and Gender Behavior. 5. Fathers, Mothers, and Progeny. 6. Male Youth and Honor. 7. A Young Man's Career: Cultural and Familial Limits. 8. Strategies of Courtship and Marriage. 9. Women in a Man's World: Role and Self-Image. 10. Law, Property, and Male Dominance. 11. Male Custom in Family Life. 12. Status, Law, and Sexual Misconduct. Part Three: Structures of Rival.
Other form:Print version: Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 1932- Southern honor. 25th anniversary ed. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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