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LEADER: 01975cam a2200313 a 4500
001 99006084
003 DLC
005 20020916175900.0
008 990128s1999 alu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 99006084
020 $a0817309853 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us-al
050 00 $aPS266.A5$bB45 1999
082 00 $a810.9/9761$221
100 1 $aBeidler, Philip D.
245 10 $aFirst books :$bthe printed word and cultural formation in early Alabama /$cPhilip D. Beidler.
260 $aTuscaloosa :$bUniversity of Alabama Press,$cc1999.
300 $aix, 185 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index.
505 0 $aSatire 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$zAlabama$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zAlabama$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLiterature publishing$zAlabama$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$xHomes and haunts$zAlabama.
650 0 $aPrinting$zAlabama$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aAlabama$xIntellectual life.
651 0 $aAlabama$xIn literature.