Southern Folk Plain and 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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820310239
• ISBN13: 9780820310237
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 7.9"