Intellectual manhood : university, self, and society in the Antebellum South / Timothy J. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Timothy J. (Timothy Joseph), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--Southern States--Sociological aspects--History.

Universities and colleges.

Men--Education (Higher)--Southern StatesHisxtory.

Men.

Male college students--Southern States--Conduct of life.

Male college students.

Masculinity--Social aspects--Southern States.

Masculinity.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J. Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a growing world of intellectualism flexible enough to marry the era's middle-class value system to the honor-bound worldview of the southern gentry. By focusing on the students' perspective and drawing from a rich trove of their letters, diaries, essays, speeches, and memoirs, Williams narrates the under examined story of education and manhood at the University of North Carolina, the nation's first public university. Every aspect of student life is considered, from the formal classroom and the vibrant curriculum of private literary societies to students' personal relationships with each other, their families, young women, and college slaves. In each of these areas, Williams sheds new light on the cultural and intellectual history of young southern men, and in the process dispels commonly held misunderstandings of southern history. Williams's fresh perspective reveals that students of this era produced a distinctly southern form of intellectual masculinity and maturity that laid the foundation for the formulation of the post-Civil War South.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: UNIVERSITY: IDEALIZING INTELLECTUAL MANHOOD; 1. Going to College; 2. You Come Here to Know How to Learn: Pedagogy and Curriculum; 3. Not Merely Thinking, but Speaking Beings: Speech Education; PART II: SELF: CONSTRUCTING INTELLECTUAL MANHOOD; 4. Reading Makes the Man: Books and Literary Socialization; 5. Encouragement to Excel: Portraiture, Biography, and Self Culture; 6. What Is Man without Woman?: Courtship, Intimacy, and Sex; PART III: SOCIETY: APPLYING INTELLECTUAL MANHOOD

7. The Outward Thrust of Male Higher Education: Debating Every Great Public QuestionConclusion; Appendix: Alumni Occupations and Denominational Affiliations of Alumni Ministers; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908447-7-4

979-88-908447-8-1

1-4696-1841-9

OCLC:

899573831