The Counterfeit Gentleman

Bethia Pepperell was an heiress, courted by men in the highest ranks of society. Digory Rendel did not belong in her world, nor did she belong in his world of smugglers and spies. But someone in her world was trying to kill her. Could she stay alive in her world if he didn’t join her there? -- A follow-up to The Unofficial Suitor. Regency Romance by Charlotte Louise Dolan; originally published by Signet

What does it mean to be a man in the pre–Civil War South? And how can we answer the question from the perspective of the early twenty-first century? John Mayfield does so by revealing how early nineteenth-century Southern humorists addressed the anxieties felt by men seeking to chart a new path between the old honor culture and the new market culture. Lacking the constraints imposed by journalism or proper literature, these writers created fictional worlds where manhood and identity could be tested and explored.