First books : the printed word and cultural formation in early Alabama

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First books : the printed word and cultural formation in early Alabama

Philip D. Beidler

University of Alabama Press, c1999

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index

収録内容

  • Satire in the territories: literature and the art of political payback in an early Alabama classic
  • First book: Henry Hitchcock's Alabama justice of the peace
  • "The first production of the kind, in the South": a backwoods literary incognito and his attempt at the great American novel
  • Belles lettres in a new country
  • Antebellum Alabama history in the planter style: the example of Albert J. Pickett
  • B. Meek's great American epic poem of 1855; or, The curious career of the red eagle
  • Historicizing Alabama's southwestern humorists; or, how the times were served by Johnson J. Hooper and Joseph G. Baldwin
  • Caroline Lee Hentz's anti-abolitionist double feature and Augusta Jane Evans's new and improved novel of female education
  • Alabama's last first book: the example of Daniel Hundley

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Describes how the earliest books written and published in Alabama influenced the formation of the state's literary and political culture. The author argues that writers such as Albert J. Pickett and Beaufort Meek helped to jump start a culture in the old Anglo-European model.

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