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Autore |
Beidler Philip D |
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Titolo |
First books [[electronic resource] ] : the printed word and cultural formation in early Alabama / / Philip D. Beidler |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1999 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (198 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - Alabama - History and criticism |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Literature and society - Alabama - History - 19th century |
Literature publishing - Alabama - History - 19th century |
Printing - Alabama - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
Alabama Intellectual life |
Alabama In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Literature and Culture in Early Alabama; 1. Satire in the Territories: Literature and the Art of Political Payback in an Early Alabama Classic; 2. First Book: Henry Hitchcock's Alabama Justice of the Peace; 3. ""The First Production of the Kind, in the South"": A Backwoods Literary Incognito and His Attempt at the Great American Novel; 4. Belles Lettres in a New Country; 5. Antebellum Alabama History in the Planter Style: The Example of Albert J. Pickett; 6. A. B. Meek's Great American Epic Poem of 1855; or, the Curious Career of The Red Eagle |
7. Historicizing Alabama's Southwestern Humorists or, How the Times Were Served by Johnson J. Hooper and Joseph G.Baldwin; 8. Caroline Lee Hentz's Anti-Abolitionist Double Feature and Augusta Jane Evans's New and Improved Novel of Female Education; 9. Alabama's Last First Book: The Example of Daniel Hundley; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and |
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