First Books: The Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama by Philip D. Beidler

First Books: The Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama

Philip D. Beidler

185 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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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 makin...

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