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Southern Texts Society
David S. Shields, Series Editor
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The Southern Texts Society is dedicated to the identification, editing, and publication of a series of book-lengthcollections of manuscripts or rare printed materials that are important to understanding the culture of the American South and its expressive life.

David S. Shields is McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina, and the editor of the journal Early American Literature. He is the author of Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America and Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and Commerce in British America, 1690-1750. Shields' scholarly interests include Southern studies, cultural history and material culture studies, Early American literary history, the history of the book, and the intellectual history of the Early Modern Atlantic World.

Editorial Advisory Board

  • Richard J. M. Blackett
    Vanderbilt University
  • Susan V. Donaldson
    College of William and Mary
  • Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
    Emory University
  • Fred Hobson
    University of North Carolina
  • Anne Goodwyn Jones
    University of Florida
  • David Moltke-Hansen
    Historical Society of Pennsylvania
  • Steven M. Stowe
    Indiana University
In the series

Pioneering American Wine  •  Nicholas Herbemont, Edited by David S. Shields
In Black and White  •  Lily Hardy Hammond, Edited by Elna C. Green
Princes of Cotton  •  Edited by Stephen Berry
Mary Telfair to Mary Few  •  Mary Telfair, Edited by Betty Wood
Shared Histories  •  Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and Virginia Potter, Edited by Angela Potter
A DuBose Heyward Reader  •  Edited by James M. Hutchisson
To Find My Own Peace  •  Grace King, Edited by Melissa Walker Heidari