The Southern Gentleman and the Idea of Masculinity: Figures and Aspects of the Southern Beau in the Literary Tradition of the American South

The American planter has mostly been presented as the epitome of the romantic cavalier legend that could be found in the fiction of John Pendleton Kennedy to Thomas Nelson Page: a man of chivalric manners and good breeding; a man of good social position; a man of wealth and leisure (Concise Oxford D...

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Main Author: Gros, Emmeline
Format: Others
Published: Digital Archive @ GSU 2010
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Online Access:http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/64
http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1064&context=english_diss