First books
Subtitle: the printed word and cultural formation in early Alabama
By: Philip D. Beidler.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: American literature -- Alabama -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and society -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.; Literature publishing -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Alabama.; Printing -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.; Alabama -- Intellectual life.; Alabama -- In literature.
Description: "Early 19th-century Alabama was a society still in the making. Now Philip Beidler tells how the first books written and published in the state influenced the formation of Alabama's literary and political culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index.
Table of contents: title: Satire in the territories: literature and the art of political payback in an early Alabama classic; title: First book: Henry Hitchcock's Alabama justice of the peace; title: "The first production of the kind, in the South": a backwoods literary incognito and his attempt at the great American novel; title: Belles lettres in a new country; title: Antebellum Alabama history in the planter style: the example of Albert J. Pickett; title: B. Meek's great American epic poem of 1855; or, The curious career of the red eagle; title: Historicizing Alabama's southwestern humorists; or, how the times were served by Johnson J. Hooper and Joseph G. Baldwin; title: Caroline Lee Hentz's anti-abolitionist double feature and Augusta Jane Evans's new and improved novel of female education; title: Alabama's last first book: the example of Daniel Hundley.