The Commonplace Book Of William Byrd Ii Of Westover

Author : Kevin Joel Berland,Jan Kirsten Gilliam,Kenneth A. Lockridge
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807839119

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The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover by Kevin Joel Berland,Jan Kirsten Gilliam,Kenneth A. Lockridge Pdf

William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into the world of a Virginia gentleman. This book joins Byrd's Diary, Secret Diary, and other writings in securing his reputation as one of the most interesting men in colonial America. Edited and presented here for the first time, Byrd's commonplace book is a collection of moral wit and wisdom gleaned from reading and conversation. The nearly six hundred entries range in tone from hope to despair, trust to dissimulation, and reflect on issues as varied as science, religion, women, Alexander the Great, and the perils of love. A ten-part introduction presents an overview of Byrd's life and addresses such topics as his education and habits of reading and his endeavors to understand himself sexually, temperamentally, and religiously, as well as the history and cultural function of commonplacing. Extensive annotations discuss the sources, background, and significance of the entries.

Author : William Byrd
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469606934

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The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover by William Byrd Pdf

Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover

Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Madison House Publishers, Incorporated
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015041088520

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The Library of William Byrd of Westover by Kevin J. Hayes Pdf

"The Stretch catalogue forms the basis for the present work. Since Stretch retained Byrd's shelf organization, I retain Stretch's organization. Though the purpose of this catalogue is to show what books Byrd owned, the nature of the surviving evidence makes it impossible to precisely describe the library's contents. The only titles that can be known definitely are those which survive with evidence of Byrd's ownership, those which were published in only one edition, or those which, based on Byrd's letters, diaries, and the Stretch and Zane catalogues, can be narrowed down to one possible edition. Consequently, the individual catalogue entries here have been organized to present information concerning all possible editions Byrd may have owned."--Preface.

Author : Kevin Joel Berland
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469606941

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The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover by Kevin Joel Berland Pdf

After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was intended for the London literary market, though not published in his lifetime. Collating all extant manuscripts, Kevin Joel Berland's landmark scholarly edition of these two histories provides wide-ranging historical and cultural contexts for both, helping to recreate the social and intellectual ethos of Byrd and his time. Byrd enriched his narratives with material appropriated from earlier authors, many of whose works were in his library--the most extensive in the American colonies. Berland identifies for the first time many of Byrd's sources and raises the question: how reliable are histories that build silently upon antecedent texts and present borrowed material as firsthand testimony? In his analysis, Berland demonstrates the need for a new category to assess early modern history writing: the hybrid, accretional narrative.

Author : Carl Leslie Cannon,William Byrd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1933*
Category : Private libraries
ISBN : OCLC:8090160

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William Byrd II of Westover by Carl Leslie Cannon,William Byrd Pdf

Author : John Lauritz Larson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812296679

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Laid Waste! by John Lauritz Larson Pdf

After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of what we now refer to as modernization. Originating in England and Western Europe, transplanted to the Americas, then copied around the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this process locked together science and technology, political democracy, economic freedom, and competitive capitalism. This has produced for some populations unimagined wealth and material comfort, yet it has also now brought the global environment to a tipping point beyond which life as we know it may not be sustainable. How did we come to endanger the very future of life on earth in our heedless pursuit of wealth and happiness? In Laid Waste!, John Lauritz Larson answers that question with a 350-year review of the roots of an American "culture of exploitation" that has left us free, rich, and without an honest sense of how this crisis came to be. Larson undertakes an ambitious historical synthesis, seeking to illuminate how the culture of exploitation grew out of the earliest English settlements and has continually undergirded U.S. society and its cherished myths. Through a series of meditations on key concepts, the story moves from the starving times of early Jamestown through the rise of colonial prosperity, the liberation of the revolutionary generation, the launching of the American republic, and the emergence of a new global industrial power by the end of the nineteenth century. Through this story, the book explores the rise of an American sense of righteousness, entitlement, and destiny that has masked any recognition that our wealth and success has come at expense to anyone or anything. Part polemic, part jeremiad, and part historical overview, Laid Waste! is a provocative and bracing account of how the development of American culture itself has led us to today's crises.

Author : George Garrett,James Conrad McKinley
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807128503

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Southern Excursions by George Garrett,James Conrad McKinley Pdf

Few if any are better endowed than George Garrett to comment on the general and the particular, the long and the short, of southern letters in our time. Garrett— a prolific and internationally renowned author of fiction, poetry, drama, and biography as well as a teacher, editor, critic, and frequent jurist for literary competitions—has been immersed in the writers and literature of his native region for almost a half century. Southern Excursions contains more than fifty of the best essays, reviews, and other short pieces of his career. For the connoisseur of good writing, this book is a depository, a treasure, a veritable time capsule of southern, literary, and American culture. Without sacrificing reverence for modern masters such as Faulkner, O’Connor, and Welty, Garrett has consistently embraced worthy new artists through the years, deftly and judiciously drawing the line between critical acclaim and popular success. Payton Davis, Shelby Foote, Walker Percy, William HoVman, Madison Jones, Reynolds Price, Robert Morgan, R. H. W. Dillard, Wendell Berry, Doris Betts, William Goyen, Mary Lee Settle, Randall Kenan, David Huddle, Allan Gurganus, Dorothy Allison—these are a few of the writers Garrett has championed. If some names sound less familiar, Garrett, in these pages, will inspire readers to swift investigation. The author’s charm, wit, and anecdotal style make reading Southern Excursions a delight, and yet there’s no mistaking his erudition. Wise like a prophet, with a talent scout’s enthusiasm, Garrett is not afraid to tell unwelcome truths, covering topics that include southern publishing houses and literary quarterlies, the alliance between writers and academia, the state of criticism and theory, and, most eloquently, the persistence of place, memory, and the Civil War as themes in southern letters. Southern Excursions is a book for the ages, stowing as it does the sage views of one as learned, respected— and modest—in his time as George Garrett. “My strong suggestion [to readers],” he states, “is to plunge in and fare forward. Experience the story before turning to or trusting the opinions and judgments of others, myself included.”

Author : Dennis Todd
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781621908104

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Patriarchy in Peril by Dennis Todd Pdf

William Byrd II was a prominent eighteenth-century Virginian who at the time of his death owned over 180,000 acres and employed laborers and enslaved Africans to work his land. His letters, diaries, and surveying documents have become key texts in the study of American history, and he is one of the most quoted and discussed figures of his era. Byrd himself was perhaps the early colonial epitome of a patriarch, and typically, when historians examine Byrd and the prominence of patriarchal thought in colonial Virginia, they examine his relationships with his immediate family. In this book, however, Dennis Todd examines the patriarchal relations between Byrd and the workers on his plantations—his apprentices, his wageworkers, his overseers, his white servants, and especially his slaves. In doing so, this book illuminates a neglected stage in the formation of slavery in Virginia. Todd argues that patriarchal principles, which are often assumed to have justified slavery and to have offered a template for slave management, in fact did neither. Byrd was not the only Virginian to wrestle with the contradictions between patriarchal values and the realities of slavery, but few were as articulate. In examining Byrd through the twin lens of slavery and patriarchy, Patriarchy in Peril makes an important contribution to our understanding of the man and his place in Virginia society as well as the contentious formation of early America.

Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107057777

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A History of Virginia Literature by Kevin J. Hayes Pdf

This History explores the development of literary culture in Virginia from the founding of Jamestown to the twenty-first century.

Author : M. Thomas Inge
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469616643

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by M. Thomas Inge Pdf

Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape previous traditions, southern literature has broadened and deepened its connections not just to the American literary mainstream but also to world literatures--a development thoughtfully explored in the essays here. Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the original Encyclopedia, this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to contemporary writers and other individuals who have not been widely covered in previous scholarship.

Author : William Byrd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0722209932

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Writings of William Byrd of Westover in Virginia by William Byrd Pdf

Author : William Byrd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : North Carolina
ISBN : WISC:89070018353

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The Writings of Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia, Esqr by William Byrd Pdf

Author : William Byrd,John S. Bassett
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498114075

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The Writings of Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia Esq by William Byrd,John S. Bassett Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.

Author : John Spencer Bassett,William Byrd
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101657214X

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The Writings of Colonel William Byrd, of Westover in Virginia, Esqr. by John Spencer Bassett,William Byrd Pdf

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Author : William Byrd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Virginia
ISBN : IND:30000007657236

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The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 by William Byrd Pdf