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In Joy and in Sorrow brings together some of the finest historians of the South in a sweeping exploration of the meaning of the family in this troubled region. In their vast canvas of the Victorian South, the authors explore the private lives of Senators, wealthy planters, and the belles ofhigh society, along with the humblest slaves and sharecroppers, both white and black. Stretching from the height of the antebellum South's pride and power through the chaos of the Civil War and Reconstruction to the end of the century, these essays uncover hidden worlds of the Southern family,worlds of love and duty--and of incest, miscegenation, and insanity.Featuring an introduction by C. Vann Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mary Chesnut's Civil War, and a foreword by Anne Firor Scott, author of The Southern Lady, this work presents an outstanding array of historians: Eugene Genovese, Catherine Clinton, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Carol Bleser,Drew Faust, James Roark, Michael Johnson, Brenda Stevenson, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Jacqueline Jones, Peter Bardaglio, and more. They probe the many facets of Southern domestic life, from the impact of the Civil War on a prominent Southern marriage to the struggles of postwar sharecropper families.One author turns the pages of nineteenth century cookbooks, exploring what they tell us about home life, housekeeping, and entertaining without slaves after the Civil War. Other essays portray the relationship between a Victorian father and his devoted son, as well as the private writings of along-suffering Southern wife.In Joy and in Sorrow offers a fascinating look into the tangled reality of Southern life before, during, and after the Civil War. With this collection of essays, editor Carol Bleser provides a powerful new way of understanding this most self-consciously distinct region. In Joy and in Sorrowwill appeal to everyone interested in marriage and the family, the problems of gender and slavery, as well as in the history of the South, old and new.… (altro)
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While there are extensive footnotes, the complete lack of an index in a book published by Oxford in 1991 is incomprehensible and renders the book much less useful than it might be otherwise. Despite this glaring flaw, the book, a compliation of chapters written by different historians, presents discussion of topics not widely covered in more traditional formats. "Strategies of Survival: Free Negro Families and the Problem of Slavery," by Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark provides an insightful and fresh approach to the discussion of the dynamics of free Black families living in a slave culture. ( )
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In memory of Clinton Calhoun Lemon (1910-1989) with admiration and affection
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[Preface] The dust jacket of this book bears a portrait of Anna Marie Calhoun Clemson, the favorite child of John C. Calhoun, one of the most important statesmen of the nation and of the south.
[Foreword] This record of the lively Fort Hill Conference held at Clemson University on Southern womanhood, family, and marriage over the whole spectrum of society, rich and poor, black and white, provides the reader with plenty of food for thought.
[Introduction] The family is regarded in this work, In Joy and in Sorrow: Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900 , not as a subject peripheral to main historical concerns but as one that belongs in hte mainstream.
"Writing is a delightful invention," Margret Izard Manigault wrote in 1811, ". . . and the security which a little wafer affords to an intercourse of the most secret kind is a striking instance of the advantage of civilization. It is not admirable that at the distance of thousands of miles we should be able to disclose with safety secrets of the utmost importance?"
[Epilogue] "At the center of Victorian life was the family.," Walter Houghton wrote in his classic study The Victorian Frame of Mind.
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[Foreword] The measure of any conference is what comes next. Chances are that from this one a great deal will follow.
[Introduction] It is not merely that the authors of these papers are the leading specialists in the field and have mined rich, primary, and often untouched sources, nor that they display unusual mastery of their craft, but also that they are often asking new questions and reporting their findings with engaging skill. Along with other recent signs, these essays portend another rebirth of scholarship and interest in the history of the South.
[Epilogue] But the essays in this volume, In Joy and in Sorrow, show that we hardly need to turn to fiction for compelling characters and arresting stories that cannot but bring us to reflect upon our own lives.
In Joy and in Sorrow brings together some of the finest historians of the South in a sweeping exploration of the meaning of the family in this troubled region. In their vast canvas of the Victorian South, the authors explore the private lives of Senators, wealthy planters, and the belles ofhigh society, along with the humblest slaves and sharecroppers, both white and black. Stretching from the height of the antebellum South's pride and power through the chaos of the Civil War and Reconstruction to the end of the century, these essays uncover hidden worlds of the Southern family,worlds of love and duty--and of incest, miscegenation, and insanity.Featuring an introduction by C. Vann Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mary Chesnut's Civil War, and a foreword by Anne Firor Scott, author of The Southern Lady, this work presents an outstanding array of historians: Eugene Genovese, Catherine Clinton, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Carol Bleser,Drew Faust, James Roark, Michael Johnson, Brenda Stevenson, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Jacqueline Jones, Peter Bardaglio, and more. They probe the many facets of Southern domestic life, from the impact of the Civil War on a prominent Southern marriage to the struggles of postwar sharecropper families.One author turns the pages of nineteenth century cookbooks, exploring what they tell us about home life, housekeeping, and entertaining without slaves after the Civil War. Other essays portray the relationship between a Victorian father and his devoted son, as well as the private writings of along-suffering Southern wife.In Joy and in Sorrow offers a fascinating look into the tangled reality of Southern life before, during, and after the Civil War. With this collection of essays, editor Carol Bleser provides a powerful new way of understanding this most self-consciously distinct region. In Joy and in Sorrowwill appeal to everyone interested in marriage and the family, the problems of gender and slavery, as well as in the history of the South, old and new.
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