Research Catalog

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Description

1. x, 183 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "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

1. Southern literary studies

Uniform title

1. Southern literary studies

Subject

1. Andrae, A
2. 1861-1865
3. Geschichte 1830-1861
4. American fiction > Southwest, Old > History and criticism
5. Aristocracy (Social class) in literature
6. Frontier and pioneer life in literature
7. Plantation life in literature
8. Myth in literature
9. Civilization
10. American fiction
11. Aristocracy (Social class) in literature
12. Frontier and pioneer life in literature
13. Intellectual life
14. Literature
15. Myth in literature
16. Plantation life in literature
17. War and literature
18. Oberschicht
19. Sozialer Wandel
20. Roman
21. United States > History > Literature and the war. > Civil War, 1861-1865
22. Southwest, Old > Intellectual life
23. Southwest, Old > In literature
24. Southern States > Civilization
25. United States
26. Southern States
27. United States > Old Southwest
28. USA > Südweststaaten

Genre/Form

1. History
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

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