Cultural values in the Southern sporting narrative
By: Jacob F. Rivers III.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism.; Hunting stories, American -- History and criticism.; Fishing stories, American -- History and criticism.; Sports stories, American -- History and criticism.; Culture in literature.; Narration (Rhetoric); Southern States -- In literature.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-160) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER ONE; title: Hunting, Fishing, and the Planter Aristocracy / 1; title: William Elliott's Carolina Sports by Land and Water CHAPTER TWO; title: Field Sports in the Reconstruction South /30; title: William Gilmore Simms's The Cub of the Panther and "How Sharp Snaffles; title: Got His Capital and Wife" CHAPTER THREE; title: Preserving the Cultural Heritage / 58; title: Alexander Hunter's The Huntsman in the South, Archibald Rutledge's; title: Plantation Game Trails, Children of Swamp and Wood, and An American; title: Hunter, and Caroline Gordon's Aleck Maury, Sportsman CHAPTER FOUR; title: The End of the Southern Wilderness / 109; title: William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses CHAPTER FIVE; title: Whither the Tradition / 137; title: Samuel Derieux, Havilah Babcock, and James Kilgo.