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Author Beidler, Philip D.

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

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012.
©1999

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Edition Pbk. ed.
Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject American literature -- Alabama -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Alabama.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Literature and society -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and society.
History.
Literature publishing -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
Literature publishing.
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Alabama.
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts.
Authors, American.
Printing -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
Printing.
Alabama -- Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
Alabama -- In literature.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Beidler, Philip D. First books. Pbk. ed. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012, ©1999 9780817357306 (OCoLC)802433501
ISBN 9780817386405 (electronic book)
0817386408 (electronic book)
9780817357306
0817357300