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The dividing line histories of William Byrd II of Westover

Title: The dividing line histories of William Byrd II of Westover / edited by Kevin Joel Berland.
Author: Byrd, William, 1674-1744.
Publication: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

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Description

xviii, 508 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"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 Berland's 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 Byrd's 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"--

Uniform Title

Histories of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina

Alternative Title

Histories of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-483) and index.

Call Number

ITZB 14-575

ISBN

9781469606934 (cloth : alk. paper)
1469606933 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013028393
40022924539

OCLC

811591323

Author

Byrd, William, 1674-1744.

Title

The dividing line histories of William Byrd II of Westover / edited by Kevin Joel Berland.

Publisher

Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-483) and index.

Added Author

Berland, Kevin.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Other Standard Identifier

40022924539

Research Call Number

ITZB 14-575

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