Counterfeit Gentlemen: Manhood and Humor in the Old South

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Index abbeville, s.C., 31 abolition and abolitionists, 35, 61, 81, 105, 114, 123 adams, Henry, 13 addison, richard, xx Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (Hooper), 52, 55–60, 135n9 agriculture. See Cotton; tobacco ahab (fictional character), 71 alabama: civil code of, 66; cotton in, 54, 60; david Hundley in, xvi; as frontier, 48–49, 52; gentlemen in, 78; George Washington Harris in, 112, 127; Johnson Jones Hooper in, xxi, 48, 54; Joseph Glover Baldwin in, xxi, 16, 48, 60, 66, 78; literary depictions of, 58, 78; and migration, 2; planters in, 60; politics in, 56, 59, 60–61; southwest, 61; state bank of, 64; virginians in, 61 albany, n.y., 69 Alias Simon Suggs . . . (Hoole), 135n9 allen, James lane, 126 alligator-men and alligator-wrasslers: augustus Baldwin longstreet and, 47; John Pendleton Kennedy and, 20; Johnson Jones Hooper and, xxv; Joseph Glover Baldwin and, xxv, 50; mentioned, xiii, 70; during reconstruction , 125; Thomas Bangs Thorpe and, 68, 73, 76–77 “alligator Men and Cardsharpers . . .” (fellman), 135n7 ambrose, Paul (pseudonym for John Pendleton Kennedy), 139n1 american renaissance, 87 anderson, John Q., 84, 138n11 anglicans, 30, 119 animals: alligators, 53; bears, 68, 71, 73, 74, 77, 78, 85, 100, 104; birds, 73, 75, 76; buffalo, 68, 72, 75, 77; cattle, 107, 117; deer, 67, 68, 71, 75; devilfish, 75; dogs, 17, 59, 68, 73, 76, 84, 117, 127; falcons, 20, 21; fish, 71, 78; foxes, 29, 39, 71; game, 73; geese, 25, 26, 29, 39; hogs, 34; mastery over, 71; mules, 85; panthers, 100, 101; pigs, 63; quail, 59; woodcocks, 76. See also Horses appomattox, va., 4 Arator (taylor), 14 arkansas, 51, 74, 78 arnold, edwin t., 85, 86, 102 Art of Courtly Love (Capellanus), 20 athens, Ga., 36 Atlanta Constitution, 125 157 augusta, Ga.: augustus Baldwin longstreet in, 25, 33, 34, 36, 80, 88; businesses in, 30, 33; and class, 32; debt in, 36; description of, 30–32; and Great revival, 32; masquerade culture in, 31; mentioned, 27, 37; theater in, 30, 31; and violence, 31 augusta, Maine, 37 Augusta Chronicle, 35 Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (King), 133n13 “augustus Baldwin longstreet” (Meriwether ), 133n13 austen, Jane, 43–44 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 108, 138n8 “Bakhtin and Carnival . . .” (lachmann), 138n9 Bakhtin and Cultural Theory (Hirschkop and sheperd), 138n8 Bakker, Jan, 22 Baldwin, Joseph Glover: biography/personal life of, 16, 48, 50, 60–62, 65–66, 87, 127; and frontier, 49, 52, 55; and language, xxvi, 65; and law, 62, 92; and leadership, 60–61; as leading southern humorist, xx–xxi; literary techniques of, 87; on manhood, 65; and market/ evangelical culture, 51, 60; mentioned, 70, 78; and politics, 60–61; scholarship on, 135n19, 136n22; and seargeant s. Prentiss, 78; in virginia, xxi, 62; works by, xx, xxv–xxvi, xxvii, 65, 85 Baltimore, Md., 7, 8, 10, 123 Baptists, 30, 32, 53, 58 Barrow, Bennet, 69–70, 71, 77, 80, 81 Bathed in Blood . . . (Proctor), 136n8 Baton rouge, la., 69, 70 Bayou despair, la., 89 Bear-eaters and bear-wrasslers, xiii, xxvi, 39, 68 “Being shifty in a new Country . . .” (Mayfield), 134n38, 138n9 Bell, samuel, 110–11 Bergson, Henri, xxi, 26 Berry, stephen, 86, 103, 124 Biedler, Philip, 135n17 Bier, Jesse, xx, xxii, xxiii, 26, 138n16 “Big Bear of arkansas,The” (Thorpe), 1, 68, 73–74, 75, 77, 137n13 Blacks, xiv, xxiv, 58, 98, 102–3. See also slavery; slaves Blackstone, William, 16 Bohner, Charles H., 131n6 Boston, Mass., 123 Boyhood, 19, 24, 55. See also Manhood Brace, ned (fictional character), 37, 52, 53. See also Georgia Scenes (longstreet) Bracebridge Hall (irving), 5 Brooks, Preston, xxviii, 30, 106 Bruce, dickson david, 21 Buchanan, James, 113 Burruss, John William, 69 Burton, vernon, 31 Butler, Benjamin, 82 Caldwell, erskine, 40 Calhoun, John C., 30–31, 33, 34, 35 Caliban, 108–9, 110 California, 66, 107, 127 Calvin (slave), 90 Calvin, John, 64 Calvinists, 53 Cane ridge, Ky., 58 Card Sharks, Dream Books, and Bucket Shops (fabian), 135n7 Carolina cavaliers. See Cavaliers Carolinas, 49, 50, 76, 88 Carolina Sports (elliott), 71, 75 Carolina sportsmen, 52, 54, 125 Caron, James e., 138n3, 139n12, 139n21 Caruthers, William alexander, 3, 6 Cashin, Joan, 20, 55, 97 Catholics, 60 Cavalier and Yankee . . . (taylor), 131n4, 132n32 Cavaliers: characteristics of, 59; and display, 32; evolution of, 126; literary foils for, 43; as literary type, xvi, xix, 1, 105–6, 107; and migration, 72; in Odd 158 Index Leaves, 100; as post-war icon, 113; in Swallow Barn, 20, 23. See also virginia gentleman...