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2014
Overview
Two types of lawyers have traditionally appeared in American fiction— conscientious, elite practitioners and predatory shysters. Although southern legal characters tend to conform to these basic stereotypes, they also embody distinctive regional values that set them apart from Yankee and western lawyers.
The typical antebellum practitioner, such as Philpot Wart in John Pendleton Kennedy’s plantation novelSwallow Barn(1832), is a transplanted English gentleman. Warmhearted, courtly, and a bit eccentric, he can quote passages from the Greek and Latin classics as readily as citations from Coke and Blackstone. With ties of kinship and professional service to the planter class, he
