Title Ladies and gentlemen on display : planter society at the Virginia springs, 1790-1860 / Charlene M. Boyer Lewis

Published Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : illustrations, map Series The American South series American South series. Contents pt. 1. The scene -- pt. 2. Healing waters -- pt. 3. Community and competition Summary Annotation Each summer between 1790 and 1860, hundreds and eventually thousands of southern men and women left the diseases and boredom of their plantation homes and journeyed to the healthful and entertaining Virginia Springs. While some came in search of a cure, most traveled over the mountains to enjoy the fashionable society and participate in an array of social activities. At the springs, visitors, as well as their slaves, interacted with one another and engaged in behavior quite different from the picture presented by most historians. In the leisurely and pleasure-filled environment of the springs, plantation society's hierarchies became at once more relaxed and more contested; its rituals and rules sometimes changed and reformed; and its gender divisions often softened and blurred. In Ladies and Gentlemen on Display, Charlene Boyer Lewis argues that the Virginia Springs provided a theater of sorts, where contests for power between men and women, fashionables and evangelicals, blacks and whites, old and young, and even northerners and southerners played out -- away from the traditional roles of the plantation. In their pursuit of health and pleasure, white southerners created a truly regional community at the springs. At this edge of the South, elite southern society shaped itself, defining what it meant to be a "Southerner" and redefining social roles and relations Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Virginia Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Plantation life -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century Springs -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century Health resorts -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century Social classes -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) Health resorts Manners and customs Plantation life Social classes Social conditions Springs SUBJECT Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century Virginia -- History -- 1775-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004457 Virginia -- Social conditions -- 19th century Subject Virginia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2001026554 ISBN 0813921996 9780813921990 0813920795 9780813920795 1280490454 9781280490453 9786613585684 6613585688

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