TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruce,Dickson D.
TI  - Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South
SN  - 9780292758186
AV  - HN79.A133 V52
U1  - 301.6/33/0975 18
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Southern States--Social conditions
KW  - Violence
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; VIOLENCE AND CULTURE IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH --; Introduction --; 1. The Southern Duel --; 2. Preparation for Violence: Child-Rearing and the Southern World View --; 3. Feeling and Form: The Problem of Violence in Society --; 4. Violence in Plain-Folk Society --; 5. Slavery and Violence: The Masters' View --; 6. Slavery and Violence: The Slaves' View --; 7. Militarism and Violence --; 8. Violence and Southern Oratory --; 9. Hunting, Violence, and Culture --; 10. Violence in Southern Fiction: Simms and the Southwestern Humorists --; Conclusion: Edgar Allan Poe and the Southern World View --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This provocative book draws from a variety of sources—literature, politics, folklore, social history—to attempt to set Southern beliefs about violence in a cultural context. According to Dickson D. Bruce, the control of violence was a central concern of antebellum Southerners. Using contemporary sources, Bruce describes Southerners’ attitudes as illustrated in their duels, hunting, and the rhetoric of their politicians. He views antebellum Southerners as pessimistic and deeply distrustful of social relationships and demonstrates how this world view impelled their reliance on formal controls to regularize human interaction. The attitudes toward violence of masters, slaves, and “plain-folk”—the three major social groups of the period—are differentiated, and letters and family papers are used to illustrate how Southern child-rearing practices contributed to attitudes toward violence in the region. The final chapter treats Edgar Allan Poe as a writer who epitomized the attitudes of many Southerners before the Civil War
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/770188
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292758186
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292758186/original
ER  -