First books the printed word and cultural formation in early Alabama / Philip D. Beidler.

Author/creator Beidler, Philip D.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,
Descriptionix, 185 p. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
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.
Authors, American--Homes and haunts. --Alabama.
Printing--Alabama. --History. --19th century.
Alabama--Intellectual life.
Alabama--In literature.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 99006084
ISBN0817309853 (alk. paper)

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