03619nam 2200649Ia 450 991046222280332120200520144314.00-8173-8640-8(CKB)2670000000234193(EBL)990885(OCoLC)809768640(SSID)ssj0000775823(PQKBManifestationID)11438295(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000775823(PQKBWorkID)10743924(PQKB)10003657(MiAaPQ)EBC990885(Au-PeEL)EBL990885(CaPaEBR)ebr10591006(EXLCZ)99267000000023419319990128d1999 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFirst books[electronic resource] the printed word and cultural formation in early Alabama /Philip D. BeidlerTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc19991 online resource (198 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-0985-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index.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 Eagle7. 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 This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and history to satire, poetry, and domestic novels. Early 19th-century Alabama was a society still in the making. Now Philip Beidler tells how the first books written and published in the state influenced the formation of Alabama's literary and political culture. As Beidler shows, virtually overnight early Alabama found itself in possession of the social, political, and economic conditions required to jump start a traditAmerican literatureAlabamaHistory and criticismAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and societyAlabamaHistory19th centuryLiterature publishingAlabamaHistory19th centuryPrintingAlabamaHistory19th centuryAlabamaIntellectual lifeAlabamaIn literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryLiterature publishingHistoryPrintingHistory810.9/9761Beidler Philip D986352MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462222803321First books2472507UNINA