Ladies and gentlemen on display : planter society at the Virginia springs, 1790-1860 / / Charlene M. Boyer Lewis

• Autore: Lewis Charlene M. Boyer <1965->
• Pubblicazione: Charlottesville, : University Press of Virginia, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Disciplina: 306/.09755/09034
• Soggetto topico: Plantation life - Virginia - History - 19th century; Springs - Virginia - History - 19th century; Health resorts - Virginia - History - 19th century; Social classes - Virginia - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Virginia Social life and customs 19th century; Virginia History 1775-1865; Virginia Social conditions 19th century
• Note generali: Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Virginia.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The scene -- pt. 2. Healing waters -- pt. 3. Community and competition.
• Sommario/riassunto: Each 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."
• Titolo autorizzato: Ladies and gentlemen on display
• ISBN: 1-280-49045-4; 9786613585684; 0-8139-2199-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910953496103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American South series.