Southern sons : becoming men in the new nation / Lorri Glover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glover, Lorri, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young men--Southern States--History--18th century.

Young men.

Young men--Southern States--History--19th century.

Boys--Southern States--History--18th century.

Boys.

Boys--Southern States--History--19th century.

Men--Socialization--Southern States--History.

Men.

Boys--Education--Southern States--History.

Boys--Education.

History.

Men--Socialization.

Southern States--Social conditions--18th century.

Southern States.

Social conditions.

Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

x, 250 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Southern Sons, the first work in masculinity studies to concentrate on the early South, explores how young men of the Southern gentry came of age between the 1790s and the 1820s. Lorri Glover examines how standards for manhood came about, how young men experienced them in the early South, and how those values transformed many American sons into Southern nationalists who ultimately would conspire to tear apart the republic they had been raised to lead.

Contents:

Introduction

The first duties of a southern boy

Raising "self-willed" sons

The educational aspirations of southern families

Creating southern schools for southern sons

The (mis)behaviors of southern collegians

The southern code of gentlemanly conduct

Acting the part of a gentleman

Supervising suitors

Winning a wife

Professions and the "circle about every man"

Slaveholding and the destiny of the Republic's southern sons

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-242) and index.

ISBN:

0801884985

9780801884986

OCLC:

69423199

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