Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs

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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817307060
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs by : Johnson Jones Hooper

Download or read book Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs written by Johnson Jones Hooper and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1993-10-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the era Originally published in 1845, Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs is a series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the era. The character, Simon Suggs, with his motto, “it is good to be shifty in a new country,” fully incarnates a backwoods version of the national archetypes now know as the confidence man, the grafter, the professional flim-flam artist supremely skilled in the arts by which a man gets along in the world. This classic volume of good humor is set in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier life and politics.

Rivers of Sand

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803284888
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Rivers of Sand by : Christopher D. Haveman

Download or read book Rivers of Sand written by Christopher D. Haveman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 James F. Sulzby Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages with a domain stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory through treaties and by the unchecked intrusion of white settlers who illegally expropriated Native soil. With the Jackson administration unwilling to aid the Creeks, while at the same time demanding their emigration to Indian territory, the Creek people suffered from dispossession, starvation, and indebtedness. Between the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs and the arrival of detachment six in the West in late 1837, nearly twenty-three thousand Creek Indians were moved--voluntarily or involuntarily--to Indian territory. Rivers of Sand fills a substantial gap in scholarship by capturing the full breadth and depth of the Creeks' collective tragedy during the marches westward, on the Creek home front, and during the first years of resettlement. Unlike the Cherokee Trail of Tears, which was conducted largely at the end of a bayonet, most Creeks were relocated through a combination of coercion and negotiation. Hopelessly outnumbered military personnel were forced to make concessions in order to gain the compliance of the headmen and their people. Christopher D. Haveman's meticulous study uses previously unexamined documents to weave narratives of resistance and survival, making Rivers of Sand an essential addition to the ethnohistory of American Indian removal.

The Humor of the Old South

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185459
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Humor of the Old South written by M. Thomas Inge and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humor of the Old South—tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, profiles of local characters—flourished between 1830 and 1860. The genre's popularity and influence can be traced in the works of major southern writers such as William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Harry Crews, as well as in contemporary popular culture focusing on the rural South. This collection of essays includes some of the past twenty five years' best writing on the subject, as well as ten new works bringing fresh insights and original approaches to the subject. A number of the essays focus on well known humorists such as Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, William Tappan Thompson, and George Washington Harris, all of whom have long been recognized as key figures in Southwestern humor. Other chapters examine the origins of this early humor, in particular selected poems of William Henry Timrod and Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," which anticipate the subject matter, character types, structural elements, and motifs that would become part of the Southwestern tradition. Renditions of "Sleepy Hollow" were later echoed in sketches by William Tappan Thompson, Joseph Beckman Cobb, Orlando Benedict Mayer, Francis James Robinson, and William Gilmore Simms. Several essays also explore antebellum southern humor in the context of race and gender. This literary legacy left an indelible mark on the works of later writers such as Mark Twain and William Faulkner, whose works in a comic vein reflect affinities and connections to the rich lode of materials initially popularized by the Southwestern humorists.

Fetching the Old Southwest

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Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826264176
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Fetching the Old Southwest written by James H. Justus and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For more than a quarter-century, despite the admirable excavations that have unearthed such humorists as John Gorman Barr and Marcus Lafayette, the most significant of the humorists from the Old Southwest have remained the same: Crockett, Longstreet, Thompson, Baldwin, Thorpe, Hooper, Robb, Harris, and Lewis. Forming a kind of shadow canon in American literature that led to Mark Twain's early work, from 1834 to 1867 these authors produced a body of writing that continues to reward attentive readers." "James H. Justus's Fetching the Old Southwest examines this writing in the context of other discourses contemporaneous with it: travel books, local histories, memoirs, and sports manuals, as well as unpublished private forms such as personal correspondence, daybooks, and journals. Like most writing, humor is a product of its place and time, and the works studied herein are no exception. The antebellum humorists provide an important look into the social and economic conditions that were prevalent in the southern "new country," a place that would, in time, become the Deep South." "While previous books about Old Southwest humor have focused on individual authors, Justus has produced the first critical study to encompass all of the humor from this time period. Teachers and students of literary history will appreciate the incredible range of documentation, both primary and secondary."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Encyclopedia of American Humorists

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317362276
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of American Humorists by : Steven H. Gale

Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Humorists written by Steven H. Gale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.

Alias Simon Suggs

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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817353623
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Alias Simon Suggs by : William Stanley Hoole

Download or read book Alias Simon Suggs written by William Stanley Hoole and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation "When these words were written everybodyhadread or heard of Simon Suggs, the shifty man whose antics had been recorded in many a gusty tale of Alabama frontier life which had drawn laughter and applause from newspaper readers throughout the United States. And everybody, at least in Alabama in the 1850s, knew something about his creator, Johnson Jones Hooper. . . . The immortal Suggs, his alter ego, has kept his name alive and renewed its luster, in a biography that deserves almost unqualified praise. Dr. Hoole'sAlias Simon Suggsis a noteworthy achievement. . . . A milestone in contemporary Alabama scholarship, it will become a standard reference work on the literary and political scene [and] as a distinguished piece of biographical writing, skillfully organized and deftly presented."--AlabamaReview

Alabama Gold

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439656614
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Book Synopsis Alabama Gold by : Peggy Jackson Walls

Download or read book Alabama Gold written by Peggy Jackson Walls and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold rushes in Cleburne and Tallapoosa Counties attracted thousands of miners years before California's famous strike. In 1936, production at the Hog Mountain mine caused Alabama to be recognized as the top producer in the Appalachian states. In Hog Mountain's heyday, a local German settler discovered the precious metal while digging a wine cellar. In Log Pit, unscrupulous speculators "shot" ore into rock crevices and "salted" nuggets on land to enhance its sale value. A Cleburne County miner cleaned over eleven pounds of gold and was killed in a "free fight" all in one day. Join author Peggy Jackson Walls as she traces a century of gold mining in Alabama.

Flannery O'Connor

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Publisher : Timberlane Books
ISBN 13 : 9780971542808
Total Pages : 1098 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (428 download)

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Book Synopsis Flannery O'Connor by : R. Neil Scott

Download or read book Flannery O'Connor written by R. Neil Scott and published by Timberlane Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Simon Suggs' Adventures

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book Simon Suggs' Adventures written by Johnson Jones Hooper and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The South in the Building of the Nation

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1192 pages
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Book Synopsis The South in the Building of the Nation by : Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler

Download or read book The South in the Building of the Nation written by Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

National Union Catalog

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Total Pages : 742 pages
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Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Regeneration Through Violence

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806132297
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Regeneration Through Violence written by Richard Slotkin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.

Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521405492
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic written by Peter Stoneley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 1992 book, Peter Stoneley analyzes Mark Twain's preoccupation with the nature and value of the 'feminine'.

The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019045511X
Total Pages : 585 pages
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South by : Fred Hobson

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South written by Fred Hobson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South brings together contemporary views of the literature of the region in a series of chapters employing critical tools not traditionally used in approaching Southern literature. It assumes ideas of the South--global, multicultural, plural: more Souths than South--that would not have been embraced two or three decades ago, and it similarly expands the idea of literature itself. Representative of the current range of activity in the field of Southern literary studies, it challenges earlier views of antebellum Southern literature, as well as, in its discussions of twentieth-century writing, questions the assumption that the Southern Renaissance of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s was the supreme epoch of Southern expression, that writing to which all that had come before had led and by which all that came afterward was judged. As well as canonical Southern writers, it examines Native American literature, Latina/o literature, Asian American as well as African American literatures, Caribbean studies, sexuality studies, the relationship of literature to film, and a number of other topics which are relatively new to the field.

Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789-1861

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Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826264328
Total Pages : 414 pages
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Download or read book Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789-1861 written by Adam L. Tate and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annotated Huckleberry Finn

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393020397
Total Pages : 658 pages
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Book Synopsis Annotated Huckleberry Finn by : Mark Twain

Download or read book Annotated Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All modern American literature comes from one book called Huckleberry Finn," declared Ernest Hemingway. "There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Yet even from the time of its first publication in 1885, Mark Twain's masterpiece has been one of the most celebrated and controversial books ever published in America. No other story so central to our American identity has been so loved and so reviled as Huck Finn's autobiography.

Miss Rutherford's Historical Notes

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Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Miss Rutherford's Historical Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: