Intellectual Manhood (eBook)

University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South

Timothy J. Williams (Autor)

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2015
302 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-1840-1 (ISBN)

Infos

In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J. Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a growing world of intellectualism flexible enough to marry the era's middle-class value system to the honor-bound worldview of the southern gentry. By focusing on the students' perspective and drawing from a rich trove of their letters, diaries, essays, speeches, and memoirs, Williams narrates the under examined story of education and manhood at the University of North Carolina, the nation's first public university.Every aspect of student life is considered, from the formal classroom and the vibrant curriculum of private literary societies to students' personal relationships with each other, their families, young women, and college slaves. In each of these areas, Williams sheds new light on the cultural and intellectual history of young southern men, and in the process dispels commonly held misunderstandings of southern history. Williams's fresh perspective reveals that students of this era produced a distinctly southern form of intellectual masculinity and maturity that laid the foundation for the formulation of the postCivil War South.

Autor

Timothy J. Williams is assistant professor of history in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 8 halftones, 1 map, 3 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: educational and intellectual history • history of intellectual self-fashioning • history of manhood at UNC • history of manhood in the Old South • history of reading in nineteenth-century America • intellectual manhood • male college students • Masculinity • masculinity in the nineteenth-century South/ history of education/ intellectual lives of young men/ self-fashioning/ United States/ North Carolina/ nineteenth-century/ student life and learning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • social and cultural aspects of literacy in nineteenth-century America • social and cultural aspects of literacy in nineteenth-century America / • student life UNC 1795-1861 • the history of manhood • university men in Antebellum South • young men and intellectual life in nineteenth-century America
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-1840-0 / 1469618400
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-1840-1 / 9781469618401