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.
About the Author
Timothy J. Williams is a visiting assistant professor of history in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469618395
Author Timothy J. Williams
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press