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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press
ISBN-100813920809
ISBN-139780813920801
eBay Product ID (ePID)1949213
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
Publication NameLadies and Gentlemen on Display : Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSocial Classes & Economic Disparity, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, Food, Lodging & Transportation / Resorts & Spas, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year2001
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaNature, Travel, Social Science, History
AuthorCharlene M. Boyer Lewis
SeriesThe American South Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2001-026554
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsEasily the best study of gentility in the Old South to date.--Georgia Historical QuarterlyIn the special time and place carved out by Springs-goers, we can see with new sharpness both the divisions between the sexes--in terms of power and morality--as well as the way they worked together to give substance to their distinctive society and maintain their influence within it. Ladies and Gentleman on DisplayI reveals how much the Springs experience intersected with the other key aspects of southern social life., Easily the best study of gentility in the Old South to date.-Georgia Historical QuarterlyIn the special time and place carved out by Springs-goers, we can see with new sharpness both the divisions between the sexes-in terms of power and morality-as well as the way they worked together to give substance to their distinctive society and maintain their influence within it. Ladies and Gentleman on DisplayI reveals how much the Springs experience intersected with the other key aspects of southern social life., Easily the best study of gentility in the Old South to date. -- Georgia Historical QuarterlyIn the special time and place carved out by Springs-goers, we can see with new sharpness both the divisions between the sexes -- in terms of power and morality -- as well as the way they worked together to give substance to their distinctive society and maintain their influence within it. Ladies and Gentleman on DisplayI reveals how much the Springs experience intersected with the other key aspects of southern social life.
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306/.09755/09034
SynopsisEach 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., 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., Each summer from 1790-1860, hundreds and eventually thousands of men and women left the boredom of their plantation homes and journeyed to the healthful Virginia Springs. This work states that Virginia Springs enabled men and women to play roles opposite to those associated with the plantation.
LC Classification NumberF230.L67 2001
