This study examines honor and honorable emotional expressions in the nineteenth-century American South. I argue that honor was a behavior that facilitated emotional expression in three ways: recognizing acceptable emotions; navigating in society by expressing acceptable emotions; and identifying and achieving life goals. This can be seen in the life and political career of James Chesnut, Jr. (1815–1885), a prominent southern statesman. This study also approaches southern society more broadly. First, I suggest that rather than an unequivocal or static code, the prevailing idea of honor was shaped by multiple individual interpretations of honor. Individuals had to constantly recalibrate their notion of honor to coincide with other peoples...
Abstract This dissertation explores the literature and history of the ―long‖ nineteenth- century Sou...
Though an oft-parodied stereotype today, the treasured expectations of manliness were intractable an...
Immediately following their defeat in 1865, the Southern people underwent a period of intense spirit...
Anna Koivusalo examines arch-secessionist James Chesnut’s emotions in The Man Who Started the Civil ...
Reconstruction has been seen as the period of redeeming lost southern honor. I argue, however, that ...
Southerners of the antebellum era made it clear that they subscribed to an ethic of honor, but they ...
This work uses the life of one man, Brigadier General Maxcy Gregg, to assess the life cycle of honor...
Lincoln\u27s community, the Upland Southern community, was an extremely precarious, highly masculine...
This dissertation examines how concepts of honor, and its adjunct, republicanism, influenced both th...
Examination of honor culture and attitudes toward death and dying found in letters, diaries, and new...
This work expands the understanding of the culture of honor that social psychologists maintain exi...
Since the publication of Bertram Wyatt-Brown’s groundbreaking work, Southern Honor, it has become so...
The purpose of this study is to examine the origins and development of the gentleman in the South. I...
This dissertation examines how honor was fashioned in the New South by examining the masculine roles...
My dissertation analyzes how emotions shaped Americans\u27 perceptions of and responses to the secti...
Abstract This dissertation explores the literature and history of the ―long‖ nineteenth- century Sou...
Though an oft-parodied stereotype today, the treasured expectations of manliness were intractable an...
Immediately following their defeat in 1865, the Southern people underwent a period of intense spirit...
Anna Koivusalo examines arch-secessionist James Chesnut’s emotions in The Man Who Started the Civil ...
Reconstruction has been seen as the period of redeeming lost southern honor. I argue, however, that ...
Southerners of the antebellum era made it clear that they subscribed to an ethic of honor, but they ...
This work uses the life of one man, Brigadier General Maxcy Gregg, to assess the life cycle of honor...
Lincoln\u27s community, the Upland Southern community, was an extremely precarious, highly masculine...
This dissertation examines how concepts of honor, and its adjunct, republicanism, influenced both th...
Examination of honor culture and attitudes toward death and dying found in letters, diaries, and new...
This work expands the understanding of the culture of honor that social psychologists maintain exi...
Since the publication of Bertram Wyatt-Brown’s groundbreaking work, Southern Honor, it has become so...
The purpose of this study is to examine the origins and development of the gentleman in the South. I...
This dissertation examines how honor was fashioned in the New South by examining the masculine roles...
My dissertation analyzes how emotions shaped Americans\u27 perceptions of and responses to the secti...
Abstract This dissertation explores the literature and history of the ―long‖ nineteenth- century Sou...
Though an oft-parodied stereotype today, the treasured expectations of manliness were intractable an...
Immediately following their defeat in 1865, the Southern people underwent a period of intense spirit...