"Has He Madeira of Fifty Years Standing?": Gentility, medievalism, masculinity, and the allure of the Virginia Springs in the late antebellum South.
This article begins a critical revision of a historiography that has overestimated themes of honor and race in understanding constructions of elite white masculinity in the antebellum South. Gentility, too, played a decisive role in framing appropriate manly behavior. By investigating the specific i...
| Publicado en: | American Nineteenth Century History Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 3 - 20 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2024
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| Sumario: | This article begins a critical revision of a historiography that has overestimated themes of honor and race in understanding constructions of elite white masculinity in the antebellum South. Gentility, too, played a decisive role in framing appropriate manly behavior. By investigating the specific interaction between the Southern discourses of gentility, medievalism, and masculinity, this article indicates a direction for significant future study of Southern elites. It first addresses these themes in a broader, conceptual sense, before turning to the embodiment and apotheosis of gentility, medievalism, and gender roles in the South: the leisure resorts of the Virginia Springs. |
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