First Books : the Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama.

First Books : the Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama.

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. Early 19th-century Alabama was a society still in the making. Now Philip Beidler tells how the first books writte...

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Main Author: Beidler, Philip D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012
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.
Printing > Alabama > History > 19th century.
Alabama > Intellectual life.
Alabama > In literature.
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