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Author Williams, Timothy J. (Timothy Joseph)

Title Intellectual manhood : university, self, and society in the antebellum south.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Univ Of North Carolina Pr, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index.
Contents Going to college -- You come here to know how to learn : pedagogy and curriculum -- Not merely thinking, but speaking beings : speech education -- Reading makes the man : books and literary socialization -- Encouragement to excel : portraiture, biography, and self culture -- What is man without woman? : courtship, intimacy, and sex -- The outward thrust of male higher education : debating every great public question.
Summary "In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J. Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a growing world of intellectualism flexible enough to marry the era's middle-class value system to the honor-bound worldview of the southern gentry. By focusing on the students' perspective and drawing from a rich trove of their letters, diaries, essays, speeches, and memoirs, Williams narrates the underexamined story of education and manhood at the University of North Carolina, the nation's first public university"--Page 4 of cover.
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Subject University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- History.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
History.
Masculinity -- Social aspects -- Southern States.
Masculinity -- Social aspects.
Southern States.
Masculinity.
Male college students -- Southern States -- Conduct of life.
Male college students.
Conduct of life.
Men -- Education (Higher) -- Southern States -- History.
Men.
Education, Higher.
Universities and colleges -- Southern States -- Sociological aspects -- History.
Universities and colleges.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Men.
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