The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover

2002 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 923
Author(s):  
Elaine G. Breslaw ◽  
William Byrd II ◽  
Kevin Berland ◽  
Jan Kirsten Gilliam ◽  
Kenneth A. Lockridge
Keyword(s):  
William Byrd ◽  
William Byrd Ii

The Commonplace Book of William Byrd II of Westover

2002 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 292
Author(s):  
Rhys Isaac ◽  
Kevin Berland ◽  
Jan Kirsten Gilliam ◽  
Kenneth A. Lockridge
Keyword(s):  
William Byrd ◽  
William Byrd Ii

The Diary, and Life, of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1674-1744.

1988 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 645
Author(s):  
Michael Zuckerman ◽  
Kenneth A. Lockridge
Keyword(s):  
William Byrd ◽  
William Byrd Ii

The Diary, and Life, of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1674-1744

1988 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 591
Author(s):  
Elaine Forman Crane ◽  
Kenneth A. Lockridge
Keyword(s):  
William Byrd ◽  
William Byrd Ii

Gentle Iconoclast: An Interview with David Gatten

2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Scott MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
William Byrd ◽  
William Byrd Ii ◽  
Secret History ◽  
Dividing Line

ABSTRACT Scott MacDonald talks with filmmaker David Gatten about his multi-film exploration of the life and times of colonial Virginian William Byrd II, Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account in Nine Parts, in which Gatten considers the development of print culture, the arrival of digital, and the material nature of cinema.

The Diary, and Life, of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1674-1744

1988 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 779
Author(s):  
Richard S. Dunn ◽  
Kenneth A. Lockridge
Keyword(s):  
William Byrd ◽  
William Byrd Ii

Industry and Idleness in Colonial Virginia: A New Approach to William Byrd II

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Manning
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
New Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Viewpoint ◽  
William Byrd ◽  
William Byrd Ii ◽  
Dividing Line

The inception of American regionalism is routinely identified by scholars in either Robert Beverley or William Byrd II, both native Virginians who wrote intensely local works (The History and Present State of Virginia, 1705 ; The History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina, Run in the Year of Our Lord 1728) which are amongst the enduring literary products of colonial America. The regional base of both works is immediately apparent in their subjects and setting; but to stop here is to leave critical questions unanswered, questions which have in recent years begun to be addressed by ethnographers and historians such as David Bertelson, Michael Zuckerman and Kenneth Lockridge. In particular, Lockridge's study, meshing biography, history and social psychology, has proposed an illuminating “reconstruction of Byrd's personality” from his writings, an account which stresses Byrd's cultural predicament as a provincial Virginian who strove to be an English gentleman. My purpose in this paper is not to challenge such an interpretation, nor to propose an alternative historical viewpoint, but rather to add the perspective of literary criticism to our reading of Byrd's prose itself. I shall argue that the “ southernness” of Byrd's writing is a characteristic less of his subject matter — his Virginian material — or of his biographical limitations, than of his style, and that the History of the Dividing Line charts enduring preoccupations of Byrd's writing career which reached perfectly self-conscious apotheosis in this, his most carefully composed and corrected work.

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