Cavalier and Yankee : the Old South and American national character /
Old South and American national character
by William R. Taylor.
- xxii, 369 pages ; 18 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Crisis in the old order -- From natural aristocrat to country squire -- Point counterpoint : the growth of the southern legend in the north -- Holding the wolf by the ears : the plantation setting and the social order -- A squire of change alley : the plantation legend and the aristocratic legend -- The promised land -- A northern man of southern principles -- Revolution in South Carolina -- Whistling in the dark -- The rage for order.
The book is an intellectual history of the South before the Civil War, the perception of it in the North, and the effect it had upon the nation in the years from 1800 to 1860.
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National characteristics, American American literature--History and criticism--1783-1850