Bibliograph

The field of honor, essays on southern character and American identity, edited by John Mayfield and Todd Hagstette ; foreword by Edward L. Ayers

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The field of honor, essays on southern character and American identity, edited by John Mayfield and Todd Hagstette ; foreword by Edward L. Ayers

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eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

The field of honor

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bibliography

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949866241

Responsibility statement

edited by John Mayfield and Todd Hagstette ; foreword by Edward L. Ayers

Sub title

essays on southern character and American identity

Table Of Contents

Foreword: honor's southern journey / Edward L. Ayers -- Part I. Challenging honor--the marketplace -- The marketplace of ideas: honor and enterprise in the Old South / John Mayfield -- To civilize King Cotton's realm: William Gilmore Simms's chivalric quest / David Moltke-Hansen -- Bushels of corn, tubs of trouble: measuring honor at the Pendleton Farmer's Society, 1823-1824 / Kathleen M. Hilliard -- "A very honorable man in his trading": honor, credit reporting, and the market economy in antebellum Charleston / Amanda Mushal -- Part II. Honor, violence, and the law -- Writing the duel: rhetorical negotiation and the language of honor in the nineteenth-century South / Todd Hagstette -- An honorable death? The Stuart-Bennett duel of 1819 / Matthew A. Byron -- "Not a judicial act, yet a judicious one": honor, office, and democracy / Christopher Michael Curtis -- The subversive rhetoric of honor and illegality in Thomas Nelson Page's "Marse Chan" / Bradley Johnson -- Part III. Defining the man--honor and character -- "The honor of New England": Nathaniel Hawthore and the Cilley-Graves duel of 1838 / Robert S. Levine -- Pursuits of character: rethinking honor among antebellum southern college students / Timothy J. Williams -- "The deceivingest fellow": honor, respectability, and the crisis of character in the Old South / Lawrence T. McDonnell -- "He ordered the first gun fired & he resigned first": James Chesnut, southern honor, and emotion / Anna Koivusalo -- Part IV. Defining the other--honor and shame -- "The prisoner...thinks a great deal of her virtue": enslaved female honor, shame, and infanticide in antebellum Virginia / Jeff Forret -- "Tattling is far more common here": gossip, ostracism, and reputation in the Old South / Brenda Faverty -- "Early acquired superstition": conjure and the attempted redefinition of racial honor / Jeffery E. Anderson -- Part V. The persistence of honor -- "The secret of vengeance": honor and revenge in Andrew Lytle's The long night / Sarah E. Gardner -- Iron chests: honor and manhood in southern evangelicalism / Edward R. Crowther -- Honor and the rhetoric of conservatism in twenty-first-centurry America / Dickson D. Bruce Jr. and Emily S. Bruce

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