This dissertation is a venture in microhistory. Based on detailed diaries and extensive correspondence, it treats the life of Louisa Maxwell Holmes Cocke, an upper class evangelical Christian from Norfolk, Virginia, who lived from 1788 to 1843. On one level it is cultural history broadly defined, a minute study of various cultural and intellectual topics. / On another level this study is an inquiry into the relationship between ideas and the practice of life. Its ground is the history of ideas; its purpose is to suggest the connection between antecedent thought and consequent action in the intelligible relations of an ante-bellum Southern woman's life. / This study attempts a final level of investigation, an examination into manners and feelings. With one Virginia family as a recurrent setting, it seeks to sort out and assess the complex of relationships within an ante-bellum home. Children, guests, slaves--all seen against the background of an unhappy marriage--were the sad context of Louisa Cocke's daily duty and constant sorrow. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-04, Section: A, page: 1189. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75309 |
| Contributors | URBACH, JON LEONARD., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 641 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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