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Author : Benjamin Buford Williams
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Alabama
ISBN : 083862054X
A biographical, bibliographical, generic, critical, and chronological survey of nineteenth-century Alabama authors. Presents a vivid picture of life in the South in 19th-century America.
Author : Philip D. Beidler
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817357306
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 written and published in the state influenced the formation of Alabama's literary and political culture. As Beidler shows, virtually overnight early Alabama found itself in possession of the social, political, and economic conditions required to jump start a traditional literary culture in the old Anglo-European model: property-based class relationships, large concentrations of personal wealth, and professional and merchant classes of similar social, political, educational, and literary views. Beidler examines the work of well-known writers such as humorist Johnson J. Hooper and novelist Caroline Lee Hentz, and takes on other classic pieces like Albert J. Pickett's History of Alabama and Alexander Beaufort Meek's epic poem The Red Eagle. Beidler also considers lesser-known works like Lewis B. Sewall's verse satire The Adventures of Sir John Falstaff the II, Henry Hitchcock's groundbreaking legal volume Alabama Justice of the Peace, and Octavia Walton Levert's Souvenirs of Travel. Most of these works were written by and for society's elite, and although many celebrate the establishment of an ordered way of life, they also preserve the biases of authors who refused to write about slavery yet continually focused on the extermination of Native Americans. First Books returns us to the world of early Alabama that these texts not only recorded but helped create. Written with flair and a strong individual voice, it will appeal not only to scholars of Alabama history and literature but also to anyone interested in the antebellum South.
Author : Lorie Watkins
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496811929
With contributions by: Ted Atkinson, Robert Bray, Patsy J. Daniels, David A. Davis, Taylor Hagood, Lisa Hinrichsen, Suzanne Marrs, Greg O�Brien, Ted Ownby, Ed Piacentino, Claude Pruitt, Thomas J. Richardson, Donald M. Shaffer, Theresa M. Towner, Terrence T. Tucker, Daniel Cross Turner, Lorie Watkins, and Ellen Weinauer Mississippi is a study in contradictions. One of the richest states when the Civil War began, it emerged as possibly the poorest and remains so today. Geographically diverse, the state encompasses ten distinct landform regions. As people traverse these, they discover varying accents and divergent outlooks. They find pockets of inexhaustible wealth within widespread, grinding poverty. Yet the most illiterate, disadvantaged state has produced arguably the nation�s richest literary legacy. Why Mississippi? What does it mean to write in a state of such extremes? To write of racial and economic relations so contradictory and fraught as to defy any logic? Willie Morris often quoted William Faulkner as saying, �To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.� What Faulkner (or more likely Morris) posits is that Mississippi is not separate from the world. The country�s fascination with Mississippi persists because the place embodies the very conflicts that plague the nation. This volume examines indigenous literature, Southwest humor, slave narratives, and the literature of the Civil War. Essays on modern and contemporary writers and the state�s changing role in southern studies look at more recent literary trends, while essays on key individual authors offer more information on luminaries including Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Tennessee Williams, and Margaret Walker. Finally, essays on autobiography, poetry, drama, and history span the creative breadth of Mississippi�s literature. Written by literary scholars closely connected to the state, the volume offers a history suitable for all readers interested in learning more about Mississippi�s great literary tradition.
Author : Henry Leonard Stillson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Secret societies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047591412
Author : Henry Leonard Stillson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X001478841
Author : Rhoda Coleman Ellison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:$B113153
Author : Wayne Flynt
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817314309
A native son and accomplished historian does not flinch from pointing out Alabama's failures from the past 100 years; neither is he restrained in calling attention to the state's triumphs in this authoritative, popular history of the past 100 years.
Author : Charles Frederick Partington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : OXFORD:590765796
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : PRNC:32101072338427
Author : Anonim
Publisher : 清华大学出版社有限公司
Page : 1480 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Albert Burton Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Alabama
ISBN : UGA:32108035453623
Author : Kathy McCoy
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0738554375
Monroeville is the county sear of Monroe County, a count older than the state of Alabama itself. Located in what was the western Creek Nation, Monroeville became the center of county business in 1832, eighteen years after the surrender of the Creeks to Andrew Jackson. Monroeville soon became a powerful political base in the state. In the 20th century, it hosted visits from "Big Jim" Folsom as well as George Wallace, a powerful young orator who would change the face of American politics. Today, Monroeville is known as the childhood home of internationally known authors Harper Lee and Truman Capote. Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird was set in a small town that still Southern town based on Monroeville. Many of Capote's short stories and novels were drawn from his Monroeville experiences. Visitors from around the world come to the town that still remembers when Truman rented the town's only taxi for the weekend and drove around for days "visiting". Townsfolk like to talk about the time Gregory Peck came to town to meet the many of the people who were inspirations for the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird. As other writers from Monroeville emerge, such as Mark Childress and Cynthia Tucker, one wonders how many more stories the town holds, as well as what is so special about a small, rural southwestern Alabama town call Monroeville.
Author : Mildred Lewis Rutherford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : American literature
ISBN : CHI:19107761
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3151625
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0253207207
"Gayle V. Fischer has produced a terrifically useful volume that no research library should be without." —The Journal of American History " . . . an indispensable resource to finding material on women's history throughout the world." —Journal of World History " . . . the work is recommended for its currency, depth of coverage, and scope." —Ethnic Forum As part of its mission to disseminate feminist scholarship and serve as the journal of record for the new area of women's history, the Journal of Women's History began a compilation of periodical literature dealing with women's history. This volume is drawn from more than 750 journals and includes material published from 1980 through 1990. There are forty subject categories and numerous subcategories. The guide lists more than 5,500 articles; all are extensively cross-listed.
