Showing papers on "Honor published in 1982"

Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South

Abstract: PREFACE TO TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION PART ONE: ORIGINS AND DEFINITIONS 1. Honor in Literary Perspective 2. Primal Honor: Valor, Blood, and Bonding 3. Primal Honor: The Tensions of Patriarchy 4. Gentility PART TWO: FAMILY AND GENDER BEHAVIOR 5. Fathers, Mothers, and Progeny 6. Male Youth and Honor 7. A Young Man's Career: Cultural and Familial Limits 8. Strategies of Courtship and Marriage 9. Women in a Man's World: Role and Self-Image 10. Law, Property, and Male Dominance 11. Male Custom in Family Life 12. Status, Law, and Sexual Misconduct PART THREE: STRUCTURES OF RIVALRY AND SOCIAL CONTROL 13. Personal Strategies and Community Life: Hospitality, Gambling, and Combat 14. Honor, Shame, and Justice in a Slavocracy 15. Policing Slave Society: Insurrectionary Scares 16. Charivari and Lynch Law 17. The Anatomy of a Wife-Killing LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES NOTES INDEX

The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders

Abstract: This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they were committed to free-market commercialism and political democracy for white males. The Civil War was not an inevitable conflict between civilizations on different paths but the crack-up of a single system, the result of people and events.

Johann Gustav Droysen and the Development of Historical Hermeneutics

Abstract: The present interest in hermeneutics has drawn some attention to a nineteenth-century German liberal historian who, until recently, has wallowed in an obscurity lighted by little more than his notorious reputation for political opportunism and scholarly expediency: Johann Gustav Droysen (18081884).1 The consistency and integrity of Droysen's political stance will no doubt receive greater recognition as a more balanced assessment of nineteenth-century German liberalism continues to gain ground.2 And while it is true that Droysen's considerable scholarly labors were all imbued with and shaped by an explicit political commitment, nevertheless the hermeneutical underpinnings of those labors certainly deserve the more considered evaluation they are now beginning to enjoy. Indeed, while the earlier tendency to honor Wilhelm Dilthey for the first attempt at a scholarly legitimation and employment of historical hermeneutics is by no means dead,3 it is becoming clear that the honor is more appropriately paid to Droysen. Typical of the growing recognition granted Droysen for his hermeneutical contribution are recent analyses by Hans Georg Gadamer and Thomas

Podsnappery, Sexuality, and the English Novel

Abstract: Dickens' famous satire of complacency and chauvinism entails a peculiarly English fiction about the innocence of girls. The "Podsnappery" chapter of Our Mutual Friend is in fact devoted to a dinner party in honor of Georgiana Podsnap's eighteenth birthday, though "it was somehow understood ... that nothing must be said about the day"'-the generation of Miss Podsnap being one of those disagreeable facts that Mr. Podsnap simply refuses to admit. But if Miss Podsnap's birth is unmentionable, her existence is crucial: Podsnappery very much depends upon the presence of a daughter. What Mr. Podsnap cannot dismiss as "Not English!"-starving Englishmen, for instance-can always be removed as subjects unsuited to the female young. The "cheek of the young person" becomes the test of knowledge over a wide field:

The Jerry McHenry Rescue and the Growth of Northern Antislavery Sentiment during the 1850s

Abstract: In his second annual message to the Congress on 2 December 1851, President Millard Fillmore defended his administration's enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law Although “lawless and violent mobs” had resisted federal officers trying to enforce the statute, he happily noted that resistance was sporadic and ineffectual: I congratulate you and the country upon the general acquiescence in these measures of peace which has been exhibited in all parts of the Republic … [T]he spirit of reconciliation which has been manifested in regard to them [the 1850 compromise measures] in all parts of the country has removed doubts and uncertainties in the minds of thousands of good men concerning the duration of our popular institutions and given renewed assurance that our liberty and our Union may subsist together for the benefit of this and succceding generations Fillmore also received support from both the Democrats and Whigs; at their national conventions in 1852 they pledged to honor the Compromise of 1850 and earnestly hoped that sectional differences would wane

The Linwoods, Or, Sixty Years Since in America

Abstract: A deluxe Harper Perennial Legacy Edition, with an introduction from Margot Livesey, award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy A compelling historical novel of two families wrestling with questions of honor, class, loyalty, democracy, and independence during the American Revolution, now available in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics Legacy Edition. In The Linwoods, Catharine Maria Sedgwick illuminates the American character and explores issues of civic virtue and national identity in the early republic, through the lives of two families: the Linwoods, dutiful loyalists, and the Lees, passionate revolutionaries. At the novel's heart is Isabella Linwood, a bright and independent young woman who will transform from a proud Tory to ardent Rebel, challenging not only British rule but its accepted social, economic, and political institutions, including the aristocracy, slavery, and patriarchal authority. This Legacy Edition features a lush design and French flaps.

Gentile Da Fabriano, St. Nicholas, and an Iconography of Shame

Abstract: The article concentrates on Gentile da Fabriano's 1425 painting of St. Nicholas Providing Dowries for the Three Daughters. It identifies the activity of one daughter who is undressing her father (removing his shoes and hose) and the gestures of two others, one removing a head-covering and the other undressing, as signs of the social incompetence of the father: he has lost his authority over his family and moral corruption ensues. These iconographical innovations coincide with the establishment of the municipal dowry fund in Florence, where the painting was made. It is argued that the new signs of shame about the inability to provide dowries were part of the intensified discourse on honor and marriage which occurred at this time.

The Disastrous Effects of Experiment upon the Early Development of Thermodynamics in Scientific Philosophy Today: Essays in Honor of Mario Bunge, ed. by Joseph Agassi and Robert S. Cohen.

Abstract: Exemples d'experiences de la chaleur des gaz: des resultats souvent malheureux durant la premiere moitie du XIX s.

Should Debbie Do Shale?: A Playful Polemic in Honor of Paul Feyerabend

Abstract: (1982). Should Debbie Do Shale?: A Playful Polemic in Honor of Paul Feyerabend. Educational Studies: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 240-251.