First books : the printed word and cultural formation in early Alabama
Record details
- ISBN: 0817309853 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: ix, 185 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1999.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Bibliography: p. 171-176. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- A.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. |
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APLS | 810.9976 BEI | 31291002434056 | ALACIRC | Available | - |