A literate South : reading before emancipation

A literate South : reading before emancipation / Beth Barton Schweiger.

Author/creator	Schweiger, Beth Barton author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Description	xxiii, 258 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Literacy--Southern States --History --19th century. Books and reading--Southern States --History --19th century. White people--Books and reading --Southern States --History --19th century. Enslaved persons--Books and reading --Southern States --History --19th century. African Americans--Books and reading --Southern States --History --19th century. Authorship--History --19th century.

Contents	Introduction : The presence of print -- A good English education. Spellers ; Grammars ; Rhetorics -- A musical, literary, and Christian miscellany. Songs ; Stories ; Doctrines -- Epilogue. A literate South.
Abstract	A pervasive assumption about the culture of the southern United States is that it is firmly rooted in an oral tradition, not a written one. Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy and reading in the American South before emancipation by shedding light on literature's importance in helping the South preserve tradition, develop southern vernacular, and form a cultural identity. Schweiger explains how the "universal truth" of literacy's incompatibility with slavery hid readers in this region from their society and beyond, and obscured a rich literate tradition.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-243) and index.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2018961530
ISBN	9780300112535 hardcover alkaline paper
ISBN	030011253X hardcover alkaline paper

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	NC Stacks	LC152.S6 S34 2019	✔ Available	Place Hold