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Southern chivalry, or the Cavalier myth, was a popular concept describing the aristocratic honor culture of the Southern United States during the Antebellum, Civil War, and early Postbellum eras. The archetype of a Southern gentleman became popular as a chivalric ideal of the slaveowning planter class, emphasizing both familial and personal ...
The Southern Gentleman is the Spear Counterpart to the Southern Belle. Common virtues: Well-dressed, well-spoken (even when swearing up a blue streak), charmin', suave and invariably polite to the opposite gender.
The Southern culture of honor includes a notion that ladies should not be insulted by gentlemen. Southern gentlemen are also expected to be chivalrous toward women, in words and deeds. [6] [7]
Providing an invaluable starting point for discussion of Southern masculinity, these studies have started exploring the connections, continuities, crises and dissonances of Southern male identity, or the recalcitrant (older) models of masculinity in relation to the American South.
term "gentleman" generically ; the "south-ern gentleman" - we all know vaguely what that means - was at least noble, mar-tial, and eloquent, though occasionally somewhat susceptible to drink. He rev-ered southern ladies, a term he extended by courtesy to include mere women. These ladies were similarly defined as all Flor-
12 gru 2010 · Abstract. The American planter has mostly been presented as the epitome of the romantic cavalier legend that could be found in the fiction of John Pendleton Kennedy to Thomas Nelson Page: a man of chivalric manners and good breeding; a man of good social position; a man of wealth and leisure (Concise Oxford Dictionary).
The Southern Gentleman by ray McAllister Lewis F. Powell Jr. did retire. It was in all the papers and on all the network news shows. On June 26, 1987, after 15 1/2 years on the Court, Justice Powell stepped down from the U.S. Supreme Court. "My daughters thought that I would have to find something to do," the retired justice, now 80, says with ...
