Book I: Part I
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Parrington, Vernon Louis
Information will be found in the Library of Southern Literature by E. A. Alderman and others (16 vols., New Orleans, 1908–13) and in Montrose J. Moses, Literature of the South (New York, 1910). See also Carl Van Doren, The American Novel (New York, 1921).
I. The Old Dominion. See Thomas J. Wertenbaker, Patrician and Plebeian in Virginia (Charlottesville, Va., 1910).
II. For the economics of Jeffersonianism, see Charles A. Beard, The Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy (New York, 1915; Chapter XII). Also Charles Gide and Charles Rist, A History of Economic Doctrines (translated by W. Smart and R. Richards, Boston).
John Taylor: His works are out of print. Important titles are: An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the United States (Fredericksburg, Va., 1814). New Views of the Constitution of the United States (Washington, 1823). Correspondence (edited by W. E. Dodd, Richmond, 1908).
See “John Taylor, Prophet of Secession” (by William E. Dodd, in Branch Historical Papers, II, Richmond, 1908). See also Beard, Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy.
III. John Marshall: Sufficient materials will be found in Albert J. Beveridge, Life of John Marshall (4 vols., New York, 1916–19).
IV. For the plantation tradition, see Francis Pendleton Gaines, The Southern Plantation (New York, 1924).
William Wirt: His works are out of print. Letters of a British Spy (Richmond, 1803). The Old Bachelor (2 vols., Richmond, 1810). Life and Character of Patrick Henry (Philadelphia, 1817; also several later editions).
See John P. Kennedy, Memoirs ... of William Wirt (Philadelphia, 1849).
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker: His works are out of print. George Balcombe; a Novel (2 vols., New York, 1836).—The Partisan Leader; a Tale of the Future, by Edward William Sidney (printed for the publishers, by J. Caxton, 1856 [i.e., Washington, printed by Duff Green, 1836], 2 vols.): reissued as A Key to the Disunion Conspiracy: The Partisan Leader (2 vols. in one, New York, 1861); edition issued at Richmond, 1862.
Some information about Tucker will be found in W. P. Trent, William Gilmore Simms (Boston and New York, 1892).
V. William Alexander Caruthers: The Kentuckian in New York. Or, the Adventures of Three Southerns. By a Virginian (2 vols., New York, 1834).—The Cavaliers of Virginia, or the Recluse of Jamestown. An Historical Romance of the Old Dominion (2 vols., New York, 1834–1835).—The Knights of the Horse-Shoe; a Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion (Wetumpka, Ala., 1845; New York, 1882, 1909).
John P. Kennedy: Works (3 vols., New York, 1854; 9 vols., New York, 1871, with life by H. T. Tuckerman, Vol. X). Swallow Barn, or a Sojourn in the Old Dominion (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1832; several later editions). Horse-Shoe Robinson; a Tale of the Tory Ascendency (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1835; numerous later editions, the latest in 1906). Rob of the Bowl; a Legend of St. Inigoe’s (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1838; later editions). Quodlibet: Containing Some Annals Thereof ... (Philadelphia, 1840; 1860).
Edgar Allan Poe: The bibliography is extensive. See the Cambridge History of American Literature.