Name/Title
Intellectual Life in Antebellum CharlestonEntry/Object ID
2012.010.068Description
Assesses aspects of Charleston's intellectual life during the city's rise to regional influence.
Contents: The expansion of intellectual life -- David Ramsay and the limits of Revolutionary Nationalism -- Charles Pinckney and the American Republican tradition -- Politics, romanticism, and Hugh Legare: "the fondness of disappointed love" -- James Louis Petigru: the last South Carolina Federalist -- Poetry and the practical: William Gillmore Simms -- Schemes of usefulness: Christopher Gustavus Memminger -- Intellectual life in the 1830s: the institutional framework and the Charleston style -- "If you ain't got education": slave language and slave thought in antebellum Charleston -- The southern agriculturist in an age of reform -- City, country, and the feminine voice -- Ludibria Rerum Mortalium: Charlestonian intellectuals and their classics.
xiv, 468 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation LibraryAcquisition
Accession
2012.010.Source or Donor
Estate of Emily Ravenel FarrowAcquisition Method
BequestLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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BookNomenclature Sub-Class
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Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Charleston (S.C.)--Intellectual life, Charleston (S.C.)--History--1775-1865, Charleston (S.C.)--BiographyBook Details
Author
Moltke-Hansen, David, O'Brien, Michael, 1948-Edition
1st ed.Publisher
University of Tennessee PressDate Published
1986Call No.
F279 .C45 I58 1986ISBN
0870494848LCCN
8515022Notes
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PermanentDate
February 7, 2023General Notes
Note
Notes: Edited by Michael O'Brien and David Moltke-Hansen.
Includes index.Created By
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April 5, 2023