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Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America Hardback - 2009

by Richard Stott

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"Jolly fellows," a term that gained currency in the nineteenth century, referred to those men whose more colorful antics included brawling, heavy drinking, gambling, and playing pranks. Reforms, especially the temperance movement, stigmatized such behavior, but pockets of jolly fellowship continued to flourish throughout the country. Richard Stott scrutinizes and analyzes this behavior to appreciate its origins and meaning.

Stott finds that male behavior could be strikingly similar in diverse locales, from taverns and boardinghouses to college campuses and sporting events. He explores the permissive attitudes that thrived in such male domains as the streets of New York City, California during the gold rush, and the Pennsylvania oil fields, arguing that such places had an important influence on American society and culture. Stott recounts how the cattle and mining towns of the American West emerged as centers of resistance to Victorian propriety. It was here that unrestrained male behavior lasted the longest, before being replaced with a new convention that equated manliness with sobriety and self-control.

Even as the number of jolly fellows dwindled, jolly themes flowed into American popular culture through minstrelsy, dime novels, and comic strips. Jolly Fellows proposes a new interpretation of nineteenth-century American culture and society and will inform future work on masculinity during this period.

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  • Title Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America
  • Author Richard Stott
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
  • Publication date 2009-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780801891373 / 080189137X
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 1.2 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Sex & Gender: Masculine
  • Category Gender Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Men - Psychology - History - 19th century, Men - United States - History - 19th century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008044003
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.389

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Citations

  • Choice, 07/01/2010, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/20/2009, Page 21
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2010, Page 148

About the author

Richard Stott is an associate professor of American history at George Washington University and author of Workers in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity and Youth in Antebellum New York City.

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