First Books - The Written Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama

Informationen zum Autor Philip D. Beidler is a professor of English at The University of Alabama and author of several books, including The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War. Klappentext This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and history to satire, poetry, and domestic novels. Beidler examines the work of well-known writers such as humorist Johnson J. Hooper, and takes on other classic pieces like Albert J. Pickett's History of Alabama. Beidler also considers lesser-known works like Lewis B. Sewall's verse satire The Adventures of Sir John Falstaff the II, and Octavia Walton Levert's Souvenirs of Travel. Zusammenfassung This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum Alabama created itself out of its own printed texts! from treatises on law and history to satire! poetry! and domestic novels.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Beidler, Philip D Beidler, Philip D. Beidler
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2012
• EAN: 9780817357306
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5730-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous