Yeoman Versus Cavalier : The Old Southwest's Fictional Road to Rebellion, Pap...

by Ritchie Devon Watson, Ritchie Devon Watson Jr.

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Yeoman Versus Cavalier : The Old Southwest's Fictional Road to Rebellion, Paperback by Watson, Ritchie Devon, Jr., ISBN 0807125253, ISBN-13 9780807125250, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In Yeoman Versus Cavalier: The Old Southwest's Fictional Road to Rebellion, Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr., examines the emergence of the planter-aristocrat over the yeoman as the dominant cultural icon in the newly settled states of the Old Southwest -- Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas -- during the first half of the nineteenth century. He related this region's shift in cultural ideals, as reflected in its literature, both to the coming of the Civil War and the failure of the postbellum South to reintegrate itself fully into the the early 1800s Thomas Jefferson's stalwart yeoman farmer was the mythic figure that gave the most dynamic expression to and most compelling justification for expansion to the west. This potent symbol of rural democracy was enthusiastically embraced by settlers in both midwestern and southern territories. By 1830, however, residents of the new southern states had initiated a profound imaginative movement away from the frontier myths that had linked them with midwesterners. Faced with increasingly hostile attacks on slavery and the plantation system, southerners from Virginia to Louisiana united in defense of the plantation South. Watson shows how writers of the Old Southwest reflected this cultural shift in their tendency to ideali

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Year: 1999
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780807125250
• Condition: Fine

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