Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America

Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN-10
080189137X
ISBN-13
9780801891373
Category
History
Pages
376
Language
English
Published
2009-08-24
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
Richard Stott

Description

"Stott finds that male behavior could be strikingly similar in diverse locales, from taverns and boardinghouses to college campuses and sporting events. He explores the permissive attitudes that thrived in such male domains as the streets of New York City, California during the gold rush, and the Pennsylvania oil fields, arguing that such places had an important influence on American society and culture. Stott recounts how the cattle and mining towns of the American West emerged as centers of resistance to Victorian propriety. It was here that unrestrained male behavior lasted the longest, before being replaced with a new convention that equated manliness with sobriety and self-control.".

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