America and the Chivalric

Preface / America, Truth, and Honor / Notes / APC: Contents / Excerpts / Intellection and Honor / “Civilization” and Romance

America and the Patterns of Chivalry (C.U.P. 1982)

Contents

Preface

PART I: FROM CAVALIERS TO COWBOYS: CHIVALRY IN HISTORY AND IMAGINATION
1. Introduction: Mark Twain and the Chivalry Business
2. Violence
3. Fictiveness
4. Fictions and Forms
5. The Heroic and the Pastoral

PART II: CHIVALRIC PATTERNS IN INDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA
6. Quality and Education
7. Reform
8. Radicalism
9. Violence and Peace (1)
10. Violence and Peace (2)

PART III: CHIVALRY AND ETHICS
11. Honor
12. Intellect

Notes

Index

 

© John Fraser

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