LEADER 03830nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910953496103321 005 20251116214650.0 010 $a1-280-49045-4 010 $a9786613585684 010 $a0-8139-2199-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000459981 035 $a(EBL)3444021 035 $a(OCoLC)65634962 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000188410 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11183864 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000188410 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10153642 035 $a(PQKB)11458183 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444021 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6652 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444021 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10554886 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358568 035 $a(BIP)46370182 035 $a(BIP)7187758 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000459981 100 $a20010511d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLadies and gentlemen on display $eplanter society at the Virginia springs, 1790-1860 /$fCharlene M. Boyer Lewis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCharlottesville $cUniversity Press of Virginia$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (306 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican South series 300 $aOriginally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Virginia. 311 08$a0-8139-2080-9 311 08$a0-8139-2079-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index. 327 $apt. 1. The scene -- pt. 2. Healing waters -- pt. 3. Community and competition. 330 $aEach summer between 1790 and 1860, hundreds and eventually thousands of southern men and women left the diseases and boredom of their plantation homes and journeyed to the healthful and entertaining Virginia Springs. While some came in search of a cure, most traveled over the mountains to enjoy the fashionable society and participate in an array of social activities. At the springs, visitors, as well as their slaves, interacted with one another and engaged in behavior quite different from the picture presented by most historians. In the leisurely and pleasure-filled environment of the springs, plantation society's hierarchies became at once more relaxed and more contested; its rituals and rules sometimes changed and reformed; and its gender divisions often softened and blurred. In Ladies and Gentlemen on Display, Charlene Boyer Lewis argues that the Virginia Springs provided a theater of sorts, where contests for power between men and women, fashionables and evangelicals, blacks and whites, old and young, and even northerners and southerners played out away from the traditional roles of the plantation. In their pursuit of health and pleasure, white southerners created a truly regional community at the springs. At this edge of the South, elite southern society shaped itself, defining what it meant to be a "Southerner" and redefining social roles and relations." 410 0$aAmerican South series. 606 $aPlantation life$zVirginia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSprings$zVirginia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aHealth resorts$zVirginia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSocial classes$zVirginia$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aVirginia$xSocial life and customs$y19th century 607 $aVirginia$xHistory$y1775-1865 607 $aVirginia$xSocial conditions$y19th century 615 0$aPlantation life$xHistory 615 0$aSprings$xHistory 615 0$aHealth resorts$xHistory 615 0$aSocial classes$xHistory 676 $a306/.09755/09034 700 $aLewis$b Charlene M. Boyer$f1965-$01868485 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953496103321 996 $aLadies and gentlemen on display$94476419 997 $aUNINA