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Williams, Timothy J.

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Intellectual manhood: Becoming men of the republic at a southern university, 1795--1861.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Intellectual manhood: Becoming men of the republic at a southern university, 1795--1861./
Author:	Williams, Timothy J.
Description:	354 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-05, Section: A, page: 1770.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-05A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3402479
ISBN:	9781109745955

Intellectual manhood: Becoming men of the republic at a southern university, 1795--1861.
Williams, Timothy J.

Intellectual manhood: Becoming men of the republic at a southern university, 1795--1861. - 354 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-05, Section: A, page: 1770.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010.

"Intellectual Manhood" explores antebellum southern students' personal and civic development at the University of North Carolina, the first state university to open its doors to students. Historians have characterized southern colleges as crucibles of sectional loyalty and culture, aimed at teaching students how to be southerners and gentlemen above all. This dissertation, however, demonstrates that southern education was more nuanced: it was cosmopolitan, southern, and American. Students described its goal as "intellectual manhood," which they strove to achieve by learning to think, read, write, and speak their way to adulthood. Though collegiate vice and dissipation threatened to impede young men's development, formal and informal education at the University emphasized a culture of mental and moral improvement. In the process, students incorporated values conventionally associated with middle-class society---industry, temperance, and discipline---and adapted them (at times uncomfortably) to youth culture and the southern gentry's traditional honor-bound, rugged worldview.

ISBN: 9781109745955Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

Intellectual manhood: Becoming men of the republic at a southern university, 1795--1861.
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520 $a Young men entered college with ambitions to serve the republic as virtuous, confident, and competent citizens. The University's formal and informal structures reinforced those ambitions. A core liberal arts curriculum, including ancient languages, science, math, rhetoric, and ethics, emphasized that knowledge and virtue comprised men's honor and greatness. Student-organized literary societies existed at the crux of male education and friendship and reinforced these ideals by pushing students to work hard for academic distinction. Societies also provided informal instruction in oratory and debate, which qualified students for civil society and participatory democracy, and they maintained large, cosmopolitan libraries to enhance students' studies and provide opportunities for private reading and amusement. For many students, learning occurred in private contemplation of histories, biographies, and novels. Higher education also occurred in an informal curriculum of dancing and singing schools, balls, courtships, and rendezvous with local prostitutes. These private and social experiences influenced young men's social and emotional development, as they confronted conflict resulting from temptation, anxiety, heartache, and melancholy. In all of these collegiate spaces, students engaged in a living curriculum of higher learning and pursued "intellectual manhood." The resulting elite male culture favored intellectualism, bourgeois values, and both national and regional belonging.
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