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the printed word and cultural formation in early Alabama
Satire in the territories: literature and the art of political payback in an early Alabama classic -- First book: Henry Hitchcock's Alabama justice of the peace -- "The first production of the kind, in the South": a backwoods literary incognito and his attempt at the great American novel -- Belles lettres in a new country -- Antebellum Alabama history in the planter style: the example of Albert J. Pickett -- B. Meek's great American epic poem of 1855; or, The curious career of the red eagle -- Historicizing Alabama's southwestern humorists; or, how the times were served by Johnson J. Hooper and Joseph G. Baldwin -- Caroline Lee Hentz's anti-abolitionist double feature and Augusta Jane Evans's new and improved novel of female education -- Alabama's last first book: the example of Daniel Hundley.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index.