The least well known of Johnson Jones Hooper's works, Dog and Gun was first published as a newspaper series, then appeared in six book editions between 1856 and 1871. Hooper is Alabama's most celebrated antebellum author, and here he gives insight into the meaning of a culture where every male hunts - and a man who shoots as a gentleman will be assumed a gentleman. Beidler's introduction to this reprint edition explores the social, literary, and technical dimensions of Dog and Gun, which he sees as an important commentary on class distinctions in the antebellum South, as well as...
The least well known of Johnson Jones Hooper's works, Dog and Gun was first published as a newspaper series, then appeared in six book editions...
Johnson Jones Hooper J. Hooper Johanna Nicol Shields
Originally published in 1845, Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs is a series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the era. The character, Simon Suggs, with his motto, it is good to be shifty in a new country, fully incarnates a backwoods version of the national archetypes now know as the confidence man, the grafter, the professional flim-flam artist supremely skilled in the arts by which a man gets along in the world. This classic volume of good humor is set in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier life and politics."
Originally published in 1845, Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs is a series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature ...
