Honor and violence in the Old South / Bertram Wyatt-Brown.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.Description: x, 270 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0195042417 (alk. paper)
- 9780195042412 (alk. paper)
- 0195042425 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780195042429 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- F209 .W895 1986
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Abridged ed. of: Southern honor. 1982.
Bibliography: p. [249]-262.
Includes index.
pt. 1. Foundations: Honor in literary perspective. The nature of primal honor. Gentility. Family. Sexual honor, expectation, and shame -- pt. 2. Public ethics: Hospitality, gambling, and personal combat. Policing slave society : insurrectionary scares. Tar and feathers : community disorder. Anatomy of a wife-killing.