Intellectual Manhood
University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South
Timothy J. Williams
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 03/2015
Pages: 302
Subject: Social Science, Education, History
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469618418
DESCRIPTION
Every aspect of student life is considered, from the formal classroom and the vibrant curriculum of private literary societies to students' personal relationships with each other, their families, young women, and college slaves. In each of these areas, Williams sheds new light on the cultural and intellectual history of young southern men, and in the process dispels commonly held misunderstandings of southern history. Williams's fresh perspective reveals that students of this era produced a distinctly southern form of intellectual masculinity and maturity that laid the foundation for the formulation of the post–Civil War South.