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First books :

(Number (ISBN

0817357300

(Number (ISBN

9780817357306

Number

b539625

Title Proper

First books :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the printed word and cultural formation in early Alabama

First Statement of Responsibility

Philip D. Beidler.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Tuscaloosa

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Alabama Press

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2012, ©1999.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 vol (IX-185 p.) ; 23 cm

Text of 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.

American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.

American literature -- Alabama -- History and criticism.

Literature and society -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.

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Book number

Philip D. Beidler.

Philip D Beidler

Electronic name

[Book]

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