Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Byrd, William (1674-1744)
Titre(s) : The dividing line histories of William Byrd II of Westover [Texte imprimé] / edited by Kevin Joel Berland
Publication : Chapel Hill (N.C.) : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History
and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,, copyright
2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVIII-508 p.) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Bibliogr. de William Byrd p. 481-483. Index
"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"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Berland, Kevin. Éditeur scientifique
Omohundro Institute of early American history and culture (Williamsburg, Va.). Éditeur scientifique
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Histories of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North
Carolina
Sujet(s) : Frontières -- Caroline du Nord (États-Unis) -- Virginie (États-Unis) -- 18e siècle
Virginie (États-Unis)
Caroline du Nord (États-Unis)
Genre ou forme : Ouvrages avant 1800
Récits de voyages -- 18e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781469606934. - ISBN 1469606933. - ISBN 9781469633459. - ISBN 1469633450 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46902773g
Notice n° :
FRBNF46902773
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction. William Byrd II of Westover ; Taking up land ; How the survey was executed
; Accretion, expansion, and amplification ; Byrd among the literary critics and historians
; Textual history. Byrd's narratives ; The two histories ; Prehistory of The history
of the dividing line ; Byrd's revisions ; Editions of the dividing line histories
; Editorial matters. Editorial method ; Internal evidence ; A note on the illustrations
; The history of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina run in the
year of our Lord 1728. Endnotes to The history of the dividing line ; The secret
history of the line. Introduction ; The secret history of the line ; Endnotes to The
secret history of the line.
