University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics
Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Different as they were as poets, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, and Williams Carlos Williams grappled with the highly charged literary politics of the 1930s in comparable ways. As other writers moved sharply to the Left, and as leftist critics promulgated a proletarian aesthetics,...
Separate Spheres No More
Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both...
Achilles and the Tortoise
Mark Twain's Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Covering the entire body of Mark Twain's fiction, Clark Griffith in Achilles and the Tortoise answers two questions: How did Mark Twain write? And why is he funny? Griffith defines and demonstrates Mark Twain's poetics and, in doing so, reveals Twain's ability to create and sustain human laughter.
Through...
Mark Twain at Home
How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Twain scholar Michael J. Kiskis opens this fascinating new exploration of Twain with the observation that most readers have no idea that Samuel Clemens was the father of four and that he lived through the deaths of three of his children as well as his wife. In Mark Twain at Home: How Family Shaped...
The Essential Hayim Greenberg
Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture, Socialism, and Zionism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Though well known to many scholars and critics in the field of Judaic studies, Hayim Greenberg remains relatively unknown. Since his death in 1953, Greenberg’s contributions to modern Jewish thought have largely fallen from view. In The Essential Hayim Greenberg: Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture,...
Fitzgerald's Mentors
Edmund Wilson, H. L. Mencken, and Gerald Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
by Marcelo Morales
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Marcelo Morales’s The World as Presence*/El mundo como ser* showcases, for the first time in English, a challenging, bold, and vivid new voice in Cuban literature.
Marcelo Morales was born in Cuba in 1977. He is an established, prize-winning writer, yet he is younger in comparison to most of...
by Peter Betjemann, Sari Edelstein, Catherine J. Golden
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A compelling critical investigation into Gilman’s conception of setting and place
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America is a pioneering collection that probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment....
by Stephen Howard Browne, Barbara Biesecker, Barbie Zelizer
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories.
The study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Reagan and Public Discourse in America is a critical assessment of the impact of the administration of President Ronald Reagan on public discourse in the United States. The authors show that more than any president since John F. Kennedy, Reagan’s influence flowed from his rhetorical practices. And...
The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia
The Drums of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The contemporary Monacan Nation had approximately 1,400 registered members in 2006, mostly living in and around Lynchburg, Virginia, in Amherst County, but some are scattered like any other large family. Records trace the Monacans of Virginia back to the late 1500s, with an estimated population of...
Haunting Realities
Naturalist Gothic and American Realism
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism is an innovative collection of essaysexamining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities.
Following the golden age of British Gothic in the...
The Vast and Terrible Drama
American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A broad treatment of the cultural, social, political, and literary under-pinnings of an entire period and movement in American letters
The Vast and Terrible Drama is a critical study of the context in which authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser,...
Phenomenal Reading
Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
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The essays in Phenomenal Reading entice readers to cross accepted barriers, and highlight the work of poets who challenge language-as-usual in academia and the culture at large.
Phenomenal Reading is comprised of essays that...