The field of honor : essays on southern character and American identity /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 360 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Honor -- Southern States. Honor. Manners and customs. Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865. Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1865- Southern States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11676173

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Other authors / contributors:	Mayfield, John, 1945- editor. Hagstette, Todd, editor.
ISBN:	9781611177299 1611177294 9781611177282
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 08, 2017).
Summary:	Collected scholarship on the history and evolution of moral standards and its role in southern society.
Other form:	Print version: Field of honor. Columbia, South Carolina : Published by the University of South Carolina Press, [2017] 9781611177282

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I CHALLENGING HONOR
THE MARKETPLACE
Marketplace of Values: Honor and Enterprise in the Old South / John Mayfield
To Civilize King Cottons Realm: William Gilmore Simms's Chivalric Quest / David Moltke-Hansen
Bushels of Corn, Tubs of Trouble: Measuring Honor at the Pendleton Farmer's Society, 1823
1824 / Kathleen M. Hilliard
"A Very Honorable Man in His Trading": Honor, Credit Reporting, and the Market Economy in Antebellum Charleston / Amanda R. Mushal
pt. II HONOR, VIOLENCE, AND THE LAW
Writing the Duel: Rhetorical Negotiation and the Language of Honor in the Nineteenth-Century South / Todd Hagstette
Honorable Death? The Stuart-Bennett Duel of 1819 / Matthew A. Byron
"Not a Judicial Act, Yet a Judicious One": Honor, Office, and Democracy / Christopher Michael Curtis
Subversive Rhetoric of Honor and Illegality in Thomas Nelson Page's "Marse Chan" / Bradley Johnson
pt. III DEFINING THE MAN
HONOR AND CHARACTER
"The Honor of New England": Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Cilley-Graves Duel of 1838 / Robert S. Levine
Pursuits of Character: Rethinking Honor among Antebellum Southern College Students / Timothy J. Williams
"The Deceivingest Fellow": Honor, Respectability, and the Crisis of Character in the Old South / Lawrence T. McDonnell
"He Ordered the First Gun Fired & He Resigned First": James Chesnut, Southern Honor, and Emotion / Anna Koivusalo
pt. IV DEFINING THE OTHER
HONOR AND SHAME
"The Prisoner ... Thinks a Great Deal of Her Virtue": Enslaved Female Honor, Shame, and Infanticide in Antebellum Virginia / Jeff Forret
"Tattling Is Far More Common Here": Gossip, Ostracism, and Reputation in the Old South / Brenda Faverty
"Early-Acquired Superstition": Conjure and the Attempted Redefinition of Racial Honor / Jeffrey E. Anderson
pt. V PERSISTENCE OF HONOR
"The Secret of Vengeance": Honor and Revenge in Andrew Lytle's The Long Night / Sarah E. Gardner
Iron Chests: Honor and Manhood in Southern Evangelicalism / Edward R. Crowther
Honor and the Rhetoric of Conservatism in Twenty-First-Century America / Emily S. Bruce.

The field of honor : essays on southern character and American identity /

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