Virginia literature - Wikipedia Virginia literature From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is part of a series on the Culture of the United States of America Society History Language People Race and ethnicity Religion Arts and literature Architecture Art Dance Fashion Literature Comics Poetry Music Sculpture Theater Other Cuisine Festivals Folklore Media Newspapers Radio Cinema TV Internet Pornography Mythology Sport Symbols Flag Great Seal Monuments Motto Anthem Bird World Heritage Sites United States portal v t e 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] Contents 1 History 2 Organizations 3 Awards and events 4 See also 5 References 6 Bibliography 7 External links History[edit] This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (March 2017) 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[edit] The Poetry Society of Virginia formed in 1923.[8] Awards and events[edit] The Virginia General Assembly created the position of Poet Laureate of Virginia in 1936. See also[edit] 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[edit] ^ Longest 2001. ^ Huggins 2003. ^ Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), "Diffusion of Printing", The Colonial Printer, Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press – via Internet Archive (Fulltext) ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ Hayes 2015. ^ "Regional American Cooking: South and Border States", Feeding America: the Historic American Cookbook Project, Michigan State University, retrieved March 13, 2017 ^ "About PSV". Poetry Society of Virginia. Retrieved March 11, 2017. Bibliography[edit] 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[edit] 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". 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