Jolly Fellows Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America

• Main Author: Stott, Richard (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2009
• Subjects: Gender studies: men; Gender studies: men & boys
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

"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...