Description |
1 online resource |
|
text file |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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. |
Other Form: |
Print version: 1469618397 9781469618395 (OCoLC)875999910 |
ISBN |
9781469618418 (electronic book) |
|
1469618419 (electronic book) |
|
9781469618401 (electronic book) |
|
1469618400 (electronic book) |
|
1469618397 |
|
9781469618395 |
|