"Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's ""georgia Scenes"" Complete: A Scholarly Text"

This dissertation fills two gaps in literary history. First, no edition has ever presented reliable texts for the nineteen sketches collected in Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's seminal work of early American humor and realism, Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c. in the First Half Century of the Republic (1835). Longstreet did not read page proofs for the error-filled first edition, and subsequent editions have added further corruptions. Second, as Longstreet never carried out his intention of publishing an expanded edition of Georgia Scenes, the twenty-seven surviving Georgia Scenes (including the nineteen collected in the original Georgia Scenes) have never been collected together. This dissertation provides authoritative texts for all twenty-seven sketches. Also included are a biography of Longstreet; a critical history and overview of the Georgia Scenes; and a textual apparatus cataloging significant variants in the publications of the Georgia Scenes.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Rachels, David Andrew

Contributors dc:contributor

• Hendrick, George

• Biography
• Literature, American

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI9702647

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/77473