Research Catalog

Title

Yeoman versus cavalier : the old southwest's fictional road to rebellion / Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr.

Author

Watson, Ritchie Devon, Jr., 1943-

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©1993.

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Details

Description

x, 183 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"In [book title], [author] examines the emergence of the planter-aristocrat over the yeoman as the dominant cultural icon in the newly settled states of the Old Southwest--Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas--during the first half of the nineteenth century. He relates this region's shift in cultural ideals, as reflected in its literature, both to the coming of the Civil War and to the failure of the postbellum South to reintegrate itself fully into the nation."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Southern literary studies

Uniform Title

Southern literary studies

Subject

• Andrae, A
• 1861-1865
• Geschichte 1830-1861
• American fiction > Southwest, Old > History and criticism
• Aristocracy (Social class) in literature
• Frontier and pioneer life in literature
• Plantation life in literature
• Myth in literature
• Civilization
• American fiction
• Aristocracy (Social class) in literature
• Frontier and pioneer life in literature
• Intellectual life
• Literature
• Myth in literature
• Plantation life in literature
• War and literature
• Oberschicht
• Sozialer Wandel
• Roman
• United States > History > Literature and the war. > Civil War, 1861-1865
• Southwest, Old > Intellectual life
• Southwest, Old > In literature
• Southern States > Civilization
• United States
• Southern States
• United States > Old Southwest
• USA > Südweststaaten

Genre/Form

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-176) and index.

Contents

The abiding power of the cavalier myth -- Andrew Jackson and the clash of yeoman and cavalier ideals -- Frontier egalitarianism and the plantation ethos -- The old Southwest and the Virginia syndrome -- Southwest humor, plantation fiction, and the generic cordon sanitaire -- Sectional paranoia, the medieval revival, and the cavalier mystique -- Southern women novelists and the looking glass of plantation fiction -- The cavalier goes to war -- The cavalier, the lost cause, and the new South -- The cavalier's literary enshrinement -- The cavalier tradition and the orientalizing of Dixie.

ISBN

• 080711829X
• 9780807118290

LCCN

93014001

OCLC

• ocm28181884
• 28181884
• SCSB-2001587

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library