Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1901/323
| Title: | The Antebellum Library of John Richard Edmunds |
| Authors: | Haywood, Mary L. |
| Keyword: | Books and reading -- Southern States |
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| Keyword: | Southern States -- Intellectual Life -- 19th century |
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| Keyword: | Printing -- Nineteenth Century |
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| Keyword: | Virginia -- Social conditions -- 19th century |
| Issue Date: | 3-May-2006 |
| Publisher: | School of Information and Library Science |
| Abstract: | This study in historical literacy investigates the reading of John Richard Edmunds (1807- 1873), a lawyer, legislator, and planter who lived in Halifax County, Virginia. The researcher has done a cross-disciplinary study in order to understand what Edmunds was likely to have read and what his library was likely to have contained. The paper summarizes some of the ideologies associated with the antebellum South such as Stoicism and Romanticism. It also gives a brief history of the printing industry and of periodicals in the South during this time period. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1901/323 |
| Appears in Collections: | SILS Master's Papers |
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