ACLS Humanities E-Book: Southern honor: ethics and behavior in the old South

Southern honor: ethics and behavior in the old South

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 1932-

Year: 1983, c1982.

Publisher: Oxford University Press.

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Frontmatter

PART ONE ORIGINS AND DEFINITIONS

1. Honor in Literary Perspective

2. Primal Honor: Valor, Blood, and Bonding

3. Primal Honor: The Tensions of Patriarchy

4 Gentility

PART TWO FAMILY AND GENDER BEHAVIOR

5. Fathers Mothers, and Progeny

6. Male Youth and Honor

7. A Young Man's Career: Cultural and Familial Limits

8. Strategies of Courtship and Marriage

9. Women in a Man's World: Role and Self-Image

10. Law, Property, and Male Dominance

11. Male Custom in Family Life

12. Status, Law, and Sexual Misconduct

PART THREE STRUCTURES OF RIVALRY AND SOCIAL CONTROL

13. Personal Strategies and Community Life:

14. Honor, Shame, and Justice in a Slavocracy

15. Policing Slave Society: Insurrectionary Scares

16. Charivari and Lynch Law

17 The Anatomy of a Wife-Killing

List of Abbreviations and Short Titles

Notes

Index

reviews

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Title:

Southern honor : ethics and behavior in the old South Bertram Wyatt-Brown.

Author:

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 1932-

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2008
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Southern honor : ethics and behavior in the old South Bertram Wyatt-Brown.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 1932-
Oxford [England]: Oxford University Press, 1983, c1982.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.00819

Subject Headings:

• Honor
• Southern States -- Civilization
• Southern States -- Moral conditions

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• "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1983"--T.p. verso.
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