Old Virginia : The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal

by Rasmussen, William M. S.; Tilton, Robert S.

• ISBN13: 9781574271409
• ISBN10: 1574271407
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Howell Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	vi
Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	11	(7)
European Origins of the Pastoral	18	(18)
Classical and Renaissance Models	19	(7)
The ``Contrary Character'' of Early Virginia	26	(10)
The Pursuit of Gentility in the Virginia Colony	36	(26)
The Flowering of a Colonial Aristocracy	37	(12)
Elusive Virtue	49	(13)
Decline and Resistance in Antebellum Society	62	(58)
Challenges to the Old Order	64	(30)
Political and Agricultural Decline	65	(8)
Slavery Under Fire	73	(10)
Urban Growth, Internal Improvements, and Social Change	83	(11)
``Old Virginia For Ever'': The Pastoral Ideal Revived	94	(26)
The Antebellum Plantation	98	(7)
``Westward Ho!'': The Old Ways Beyond the Tidewater	105	(7)
Recollections of Virginia's Heritage	112	(8)
The Resurgence of the Old Order	120	(60)
The Cult of the ``Lost Cause''	126	(14)
Reimagining the Antebellum Past: The Plantation Society Defended	140	(31)
``God Bless My Old Virginia Home''	143	(5)
``Was This Actually So?'': Still Longing for the Old Plantation	148	(17)
``Happy and Free from All Sorrow'': The Aftermath of Emancipation	165	(6)
New Virginia and the Reinvention of the Landscape	171	(9)
The Triumph of the Colonial Past	180	(49)
The Colonial Revival and the Old Dominion	183	(23)
The Creation of Colonial Williamsburg	206	(13)
The Recovery of the Pastoral Ideal	219	(10)
Conclusion	229	(2)
Notes	231	(11)
Index	242