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Honor and violence in the Old South / Bertram Wyatt-Brown.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication 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)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F209 .W895 1986
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks F209.W895 1986 1 Available 33710001144851

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.