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

Author(s)

• Beidler, Philip D.

Bibliographic Information

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

Philip D. Beidler

University of Alabama Press, c1999

Note

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

Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BA4945609X
• ISBN:
  • 0817309853
• LCCN: 99006084
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Tuscaloosa
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 185 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS266.A5
  • DC21 : 810.9/9761
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American literature -- Alabama -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Literature publishing -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Printing -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Alabama -- Intellectual life
  • LCSH : Alabama -- In literature