LEADER 03585nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910785554403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8640-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000234193 035 $a(EBL)990885 035 $a(OCoLC)809768640 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000775823 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11438295 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000775823 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10743924 035 $a(PQKB)10003657 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL990885 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10591006 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC990885 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000234193 100 $a19990128d1999 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFirst books$b[electronic resource] $ethe printed word and cultural formation in early Alabama /$fPhilip D. Beidler 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (198 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-0985-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a7. 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 330 $a 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 tradit 606 $aAmerican literature$zAlabama$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zAlabama$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature publishing$zAlabama$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPrinting$zAlabama$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aAlabama$xIntellectual life 607 $aAlabama$xIn literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature publishing$xHistory 615 0$aPrinting$xHistory 676 $a810.9/9761 700 $aBeidler$b Philip D$0986352 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785554403321 996 $aFirst books$93737563 997 $aUNINA