Stowe examines three types of rituals central to the elite planter culture ofthe pre-Civil war south as played out by three families.
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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.
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A psychological history of Southern courtship,
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This review is from: Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) (Paperback)
I am a huge fan of Southern history and Stowe's book is by far the best I have read on the subject. He offers an interdisciplinary view of antebellum courtship incorporating psychological, anthropological, and economic perspectives.
If you have ever wanted to know more about the origins of our current institutions of marriage and dating behavior, this is an excellent resource. You will finish Stowe's book with a better understanding of the role courtship continues to play in the developement of separate spheres for men and women.
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This book is about the cultural life of elite southern planters in pre-Civil War America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
indulgence and control, moral advisers, courtship letters, preemptory challenge, academy life, actual affairs, antebellum years, sexual spheres, plantation mistress Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, Drury Lacy, William Gaston, South Carolina, Anna King, Thomas King, Maggie Morgan, New York City, San Francisco, United States, Caroline Hentz, Hannah More, Henry Townes, Maria Bryan, Thomas Butler King, Bessie Lacy, Henry Cumming, Jonathan Cilley, Joseph Skinner, Louis Taveau, Madame Talvande, Margaret Coxe, Brice Creek, James French, Mary Lacy New!
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This book is about the cultural life of elite southern planters in pre-Civil War America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
indulgence and control, moral advisers, courtship letters, preemptory challenge, academy life, actual affairs, antebellum years, sexual spheres, plantation mistress Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Carolina, Drury Lacy, William Gaston, South Carolina, Anna King, Thomas King, Maggie Morgan, New York City, San Francisco, United States, Caroline Hentz, Hannah More, Henry Townes, Maria Bryan, Thomas Butler King, Bessie Lacy, Henry Cumming, Jonathan Cilley, Joseph Skinner, Louis Taveau, Madame Talvande, Margaret Coxe, Brice Creek, James French, Mary Lacy New!
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- The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South by Catherine Clinton on 5 pages
- Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (Galaxy Books) by Bertram Wyatt-Brown in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology (Basic Books Classics) by Clifford Geertz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Masters and Statesmen: The Political Culture of American Slavery (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) by Kenneth S. Greenberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mission for Life: The Story of the Family of Adoniram Judson, the Dramatic Events of the First American Foreign Mission, and the Course of Evangelica by Joan Jacobs Brumberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Society and Culture in the Slave South (Rewriting Histories) by J. William Harris on page 71, page 191, and page 212
- Society and Culture in the Slave South (Rewriting Histories) by J. William Harris on page 71, page 191, and page 212
- The Nature of Resistance in South Carolina's Works Progress Administration Ex-Slave Narratives by Gerald J. Pierson on page 37, page 45, and Back Matter
- Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal (Gender Relations in the American Experience) by Anya Jabour in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- All that Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South by Stephen William Berry II in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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