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First books : the printed word and cultural formation in early Alabama
Record details
- ISBN: 9780817357306
- ISBN: 0817357300
- Physical Description: ix, 185 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: Pbk. ed.
- Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012, ©1999.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index. |
| 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 -- 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. |
| Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also issued as an ebook. |
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