Cultural Values in the Southern Sporting Narrative

Jacob E. Rivers's Cultural Values in the Southern Sporting Narrative examines classic southern fiction - along with lesser known literary works - with an eye to the ways that southern writers such as William Elliott, William Gilmore Simms, and William Faulkner depict hunting and outdoorsmanship. Blending literary history with sociology and cultural criticism, Rivers explores the recurring themes of honor, fair play, and noblesse oblige and illustrates how the sporting genre has reflected the moral consciousness of the American South.

ISBN	1570034834	Pages	216
ISBN13	9781570034831 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	University of South Carolina Press	Weight (grammes)	426
Imprint	University of South Carolina Press	Published in	South Carolina
Format	Hardback	Height (mm)	229
Publication date	31 Dec 2002	Width (mm)	152
Library of Congress	2002007875	Spine width (mm)	19
DEWEY	813.009355	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly
DEWEY edition	DC21

	Preface
Ch. 1	Hunting, Fishing, and the Planter Aristocracy	1
	William Elliott's Carolina Sports by Land and Water
Ch. 2	Field Sports in the Reconstruction South	30
	William Gilmore Simms's The Cub of the Panther and "How Sharp Snaffles Got His Capital and Wife"
Ch. 3	Preserving the Cultural Heritage	58
	Alexander Hunter's The Huntsman in the South, Archibald Rutledge's Plantation Game Trails, Children of Swamp and Wood, and An American Hunter, and Caroline Gordon's Aleck Maury, Sportsman
Ch. 4	The End of the Southern Wilderness	109
	William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses
Ch. 5	Whither the Tradition	137
	Samuel Derieux, Havilah Babcock, and James Kilgo
	Bibliography	151
	Index	161

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