Title A literate South : reading before emancipation / Beth Barton Schweiger.

Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
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Summary	A pervasive assumption about the culture of the southern United States is that it is firmly rooted in an oral tradition, not a written one. Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy and reading in the American South before emancipation by shedding light on literature's importance in helping the South preserve tradition, develop southern vernacular, and form a cultural identity. Schweiger explains how the "universal truth" of literacy's incompatibility with slavery hid readers in this region from their society and beyond, and obscured a rich literate tradition.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION The Presence of Print; PART I: A Good English Education; CHAPTER ONE Spellers; CHAPTER TWO Grammars; CHAPTER THREE Rhetorics; PART II: A Musical, Literary, and Christian Miscellany; CHAPTER FOUR Songs; CHAPTER FIVE Stories; CHAPTER SIX Doctrines; EPILOGUE A Literate South; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Literacy -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Literacy.
	Southern States.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Books and reading -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Books and reading.
	White people -- Books and reading -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Enslaved persons -- Books and reading -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	African Americans -- Books and reading -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	African Americans -- Books and reading.
	Writing -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Writing.
	White people.
	PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
	Enslaved persons.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Schweiger, Beth Barton. Literate South. Reading before Emancipation. New Haven : Yale University Press 2019 9780300112535 (OCoLC)1083628313
ISBN	9780300245394 (electronic book)
	0300245394 (electronic book)
	9780300112535
	030011253X

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