Description: Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover, Paperback by Berland, Kevin Joel (EDT), ISBN 1469633450, ISBN-13 9781469633459, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was intended for the London literary market, though not published in his lifetime. Collating all extant manuscripts, Kevin Joel Berlands landmark scholarly edition of these two histories provides wide-ranging historical and cultural contexts for both, helping to recreate the social and intellectual ethos of Byrd and his time.
Byrd enriched his narratives with material appropriated from earlier authors, many of whose works were in his library--the most extensive in the American colonies. Berland identifies for the first time many of Byrds sources and raises the question: how reliable are histories that build silently upon antecedent texts and present borrowed material as firsthand testimony? In his analysis, Berland demonstrates the need for a new category to assess early modern history writing: the hybrid, accretional narrative.
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Book Title: Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover
Number of Pages: 528 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, De, Fl, Ga, Md, Nc, SC, VA, WV), United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, History
Item Weight: 10 oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Kevin Joel Berland
Book Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
