Virginia literature

The literature of Virginia, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative authors include James Branch Cabell, Ellen Glasgow, William Hoffman, Lee Smith, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda and William Styron.[1][2]

History

A printing press began operating in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1682.[3] Colonial- and Federal-era writers included John Smith (True Relation of Occurrences and Accidents in Virginia, 1608); Robert Beverley, Jr. (History and Present State of Virginia, 1705); Arthur Blackamore (Religious Triumverate, 1720); Thomas Jefferson (Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785).[4]

Literary figures of the antebellum period included Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia-born writers William Alexander Caruthers (1802–1846), John Esten Cooke (1830-1886), Philip Pendleton Cooke (1816 -1850), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851).[5] The Southern Literary Messenger launched in Richmond in 1834.[6]

Marion Fontaine Cabell Tyree's Housekeeping in Old Virginia, a cookbook, was published in Richmond in 1878.[7]

Organizations

The Poetry Society of Virginia formed in 1923.[8]

Awards and events

The Virginia General Assembly created the position of Poet Laureate of Virginia in 1936.

See also

• Category:Writers from Virginia
• List of newspapers in Virginia
• Category:Virginia in fiction
• Category:Libraries in Virginia
• Southern United States literature
• American literary regionalism

References

1. Longest 2001.
2. Huggins 2003.
3. Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), "Diffusion of Printing", The Colonial Printer, Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press – via Internet Archive (Fulltext)
4. Charles Reagan Wilson; William Ferris, eds. (1989). "Beginnings of Southern Literature". Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807818232 – via Documenting the American South.
5. Charles Reagan Wilson; William Ferris, eds. (1989). "Antebellum Era". Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807818232 – via Documenting the American South.
6. Hayes 2015.
7. "Regional American Cooking: South and Border States", Feeding America: the Historic American Cookbook Project, Michigan State University, retrieved March 13, 2017
8. "About PSV". Poetry Society of Virginia. Retrieved March 11, 2017.

Bibliography

• Carl Holliday (1909). "Literature of Colonial Virginia". American Historical Magazine. New York: National Americana Society. 4. OCLC 4265190.
• Lucian Lamar Knight, ed. (1913). "Fifty Reading Courses: Virginia". Library of Southern Literature. 16. Atlanta: Martin and Hoyt Company. p. 217–225 – via HathiTrust.
• Elsie Dershem (1921). "Virginia". Outline of American State Literature. Lawrence, Kansas: World Company – via Internet Archive.
• Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Literature", Virginia: a Guide to the Old Dominion, American Guide Series, Oxford University Press, pp. 156–166, ISBN 9780403021956 – via Google Books
• Howard Mumford Jones (1946). "Literature of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century". Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. N.S. 19 (2): 1–47. doi:10.2307/25058511. hdl:2027/uva.x001249441. JSTOR 25058511.
• Leslie Bjorncrantz. A Checklist of Virginia Writers, Past and Present. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Library, 1970
• G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). Guide to the Study of United States Imprints. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-36761-6. (Includes information about Virginia literature)
• Welford Dunaway Taylor. Virginia Authors, Past and Present. Richmond, Va.: Virginia Association of Teachers of English, 1972
• Richard Beale Davis. Literature and Society in Early Virginia 1608–1840. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1973
• Della Anderson. 101 Virginia Women Writers: A Select Bibliography. Richmond, Va.: Virginia Women’s Cultural History Project, 1984
• George C. Longest (2001). "Literature of Virginia". In Joseph M. Flora; Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan (eds.). Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Louisiana State University Press. p. 940+. ISBN 978-0-8071-2692-9.
• Sarah Huggins (2003), Researching Virginia Authors (PDF), Research Guides, Richmond, VA: Library of Virginia. (Subject guide)
• Kevin J. Hayes, ed. (2015). History of Virginia Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-05777-7.

External links

• David Rawson, "Printing in Colonial Virginia", Encyclopedia Virginia, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
• Thomas Cutrer, "Popular Literature during the Civil War", Encyclopedia Virginia, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
• United for Libraries. "Literary Landmarks by State: Virginia". Chicago: American Library Association.