The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books

Hemingway, Race, and Art

Bloodlines and the Color Line

by Marc Kevin Dudley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

A social historical reading of Hemingway through the lens of race William Faulkner has long been considered the great racial interrogator of the early-twentieth-century South. In Hemingway, Race, and Art, author Marc Kevin Dudley suggests that Ernest Hemingway not only shared Faulkner’s racial...

Hemingway's Spain

Imagining the Spanish World

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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016

Ernest Hemingway famously called Spain “the country that I loved more than any other except my own,” and his forty-year love affair with it provided an inspiration and setting for major works from each decade of his career: The Sun Also Rises, Death in the Afternoon, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016

In 1925, Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that “the reason you are so sore you missed the war is because the war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds up the action and brings out all sorts of stuff that normally you have to wait a lifetime to get.”...

The Lousy Racket

Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature

by Robert Trogdon
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

The business of making an American literary icon The Lousy Racket is a thorough examination of Ernest Hemingway’s working relationship with his American publisher, Charles Scribner’s Sons, and with his editors there: Maxwell Perkins, Wallace Meyer, and Charles Scribner III. This first critical...

Why Cows Need Names

And More Secrets of Amish Farms

by Randy James
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013

An inspiring glimpse into the struggles of a young Amish farm family Agriculture continues to be the largest industry in the United States with over 2.2 million farms. Amazingly, well over 100,000 new small family farms have sprung up in the past few years . . . and almost no one noticed. Why...
by Bickford Sylvester, Larry Grimes, Peter L. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018

The Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple work. An old man goes fishing. He catches a giant marlin after much struggle. Sharks attack and destroy the fish. The old man is left with the bare bones of the fish—a Monday morning “fish story.” But much lies beneath the surface. The action is...

Sacred Land

Sherwood Anderson, Midwestern, Modernisms, and the Sacramental Vision of Nature

by Mark Buechsel
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013

From the 1910s through the 1930s, Midwestern writers were conspicuously prominent in American literary life. A generation of writers from the Midwest had come of age and had shared an important and motivating cultural experience: the encompassing transformation of rural and urban Midwestern life from...

The Admirable Radical

Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945-1970

by Carl Mirra
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010

Son of famous sociologists Helen and Robert Lynd, Staughton Lynd was one of the most visible figures of the New Left, a social movement during the 1960s that emphasized participatory democracy. His tireless campaign for social justice prompted his former Spelman College student, Alice Walker, to remember...

A Family and Nation under Fire

The Civil War Letters and Journals of William and Joseph Medill

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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018

This collection of previously unpublished diaries and correspondence between Maj. William Medill and older brother Joseph, one of the influential owners of the Chicago Tribune, illuminates the Republican politics of the Civil War era. The brothers correct newspaper coverage of the war, disagree with...

War + Ink

New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings

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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014

Casts fresh light on the formative years of one of the twentieth century’s most important literary figures Ernest Hemingway’s early adulthood (1917–1929) was marked by his work as a journalist, wartime service, marriage, conflicts with parents, expatriation, artistic struggle, and spectacular...

The Way It Was

Sex, Surgery, Treasure, & Travel, 1907-1987

by George Crile Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

George (“Barney”) Crile considers himself a lucky man, lucky to be born when and where he was, lucky to have had the parents he did, lucky in his career, and most of all, lucky in his wives. Barney Crile’s parents were of Cleveland’s elite during that city’s self-described golden age. His...

The Passion of Meter

A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art

by Brennan O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

The Passion of Meter is the first extended critical study of Wordsworth's metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. Until now, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between Wordsworth's attempt to incorporate into his poetry the language of "common...
by William Chrislock
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013

An engaging tale of life as an immigrant in Cleveland during the post–Civil War era and early twentieth century The Story of My Life, originally published in Czechoslovakia in 1928, is the engaging and informative autobiography of Frank Vlchek, a Czech immigrant who became a successful businessman...
by W. A. Senior
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011

Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant examines Donaldson's first three novels in an attempt to define their place in the fantasy canon. The book begins with an extensive introduction to the fantasy genre in which W.A. Senior eloquently defends fantasy against charges of being mere escapism,...
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