Intimacy and Power in the Old South: Ritual in the Lives of the Planters

(Part of the New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History Series)

by Steven Stowe and Steven M. Stowe

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801841135

ISBN13:9780801841132

Release Date:October 1990

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.02 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"

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Education & Reference History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) State & Local

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