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Title The field of honor : essays on southern character and American identity / edited by John Mayfield and Todd Hagstette ; foreword by Edward L. Ayers
Published Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 360 pages)
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I CHALLENGING HONOR -- THE MARKETPLACE -- Marketplace of Values: Honor and Enterprise in the Old South / John Mayfield -- To Civilize King Cottons 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 R. Mushal -- pt. II HONOR, VIOLENCE, AND THE LAW -- Writing the Duel: Rhetorical Negotiation and the Language of Honor in the Nineteenth-Century South / Todd Hagstette -- 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 -- Subversive Rhetoric of Honor and Illegality in Thomas Nelson Page's "Marse Chan" / Bradley Johnson -- pt. III DEFINING THE MAN -- HONOR AND CHARACTER -- "The Honor of New England": Nathaniel Hawthorne 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 -- pt. 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 / Jeffrey E. Anderson -- pt. V 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-Century America / Emily S. Bruce
Summary Collected scholarship on the history and evolution of moral standards and its role in southern society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 08, 2017)
Subject Honor -- Southern States
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Honor
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125665
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1865- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125666
Subject Southern States
Form Electronic book
Author Mayfield, John, 1945- editor.
Hagstette, Todd, editor
LC no. 2016048207
ISBN 9781611177299
1611177294