Southern Folk, Plain & Fancy: Native White Social Types

by John Shelton Reed

Book Overview

Creating a sort of periodic table of the southern populace, Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy catalogs and describes the several social types--gentleman and lady, 'lord of the lash' and cunning belle, fun-loving 'good old boy, ' depraved redneck, and other figures--that have animated the region since antebellum times.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820308625
• ISBN13: 9780820308623
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.