A Literate South: Reading Before Emancipation

By Beth Barton Schweiger

Questioning the stereotype that nineteenth-century rural southern tradition was oral versus written, Schweiger sheds light on literature's importance in preserving southern tradition, developing southern vernacular, and forming a cultural identity. Schweiger explains how literacy's supposed incompatibility with slavery hid readers in the Old South from their society and beyond.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030011253X
• ISBN13: 9780300112535
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"