University Of Virginia Press imprint: 344 books

James Donahue shows how contemporary American male writers in the romance tradition engage with frontier mythology and expose its failure to deliver on its promises of cultural stability and political advancement, especially in the wake of the 1960s.

Colleen O'Brien shows why, in nineteenth-century literatures of the Americas, stories of racial rebellion coincided with stories of cross-racial romance and how their concern with race and gender united the United States with the Caribbean and Africa.

In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twentieth century's recovery of the baroque within a hemispheric framework embracing North America, Latin America, and U.S. Latino/a culture. As "neobaroque"...

Drawing on speech act theory as an approach to antebellum American fiction by Melville, Hawthorne, Stowe, and others, Debra Rosenthal calls for a rethinking of the intersection of speech and action in this literature to show how words not only represent action but also constitute it.

Within the context of a growing interest in Atlantic history, this book focuses on the relationship between America and Europe during the Age of Revolution

Dean of the prestigious Darden School of Business offers a new vision of leadership for today's higher education.

By comparing lynching in Mississippi and South Carolina from Reconstruction to the civil rights era, Finnegan is able to isolate the most important circumstances, motivations, and dynamics of this racially motivated form of violence. He ends by showing how the tragedy of lynching spawned the triumph of the civil rights movement.

Democracy came to South Africa in April 1994, when the African National Congress won a landslide victory in the first free national election in the country’s history. That definitive and peaceful transition from apartheid is often cited as a model for others to follow. The new order has since survived...

Bill Hardwig shows how late-nineteenth-century periodical writers' fascination with Appalachian, African American, and New Orleanais cultures destabilized the standard representation of the South as a remnant of white plantation culture.

A sweeping assessment of the impact of the Enlightenment and Religion on the history of American literature.

In Fashion and Fiction, Lauren S. Cardon draws a correlation between the American fashion industry and many canonical works of American literature that feature narratives of self-transformation and upward mobility, including The Great Gatsby, The House of Mirth, and poems and novels of the Harlem Renaissance.

Laurie Vickroy theorizes trauma in the work of selected modernist and contemporary writers to show not only how narrative can depict the effects of injustice, oppression, and objectification but also how an immersion in the flawed thinking and behavior of the traumatized can engage readers ethically.

Philip Kaisary shows how twentieth-century writers, artists, and intellectuals—through a range of genres and languages—understood and reinvented the birth of the world's first independent black republic: Haiti.

An extended analysis of the intersections between the institutional contexts of slavery and the affective structures of sentiment, Spectacular Suffering considers not only how the enslaved subject is constructed but also how slaves responded to and registered their experiences, creating a measure of autonomy even under the conditions of slavery.