Kent Press: 598 books
The New Ray Bradbury Review
Number 6
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2019
Ray Bradbury recognized as a master of horror fiction
Bradbury, though a celebrated author, is often shortchanged. He is valorized within one genre (science fiction) and marginalized in others (detective fiction, film scripts, poetry, and, yes, horror fiction). His importance and influence...
by W. A. Senior
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
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,...
Translating Slavery, Volume 1
Gender and Race in French Abolitionist Writing, 1780-1830
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
A new, revised, and expanded edition of a translation studies classic
Translating Slavery explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and race by focusing on antislavery writing by or about French women in the French revolutionary period. Now in a two-volume...
Moods of the Ohio Moons
An Outdoorsman's Almanac
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
For almost thirty years, Merrill Gilfillan has written outdoor columns devoted primarily to describing and creating moods about the world of nature. These columns are informed by a rural background and field notes from more than sixty years of outdoor experience. In Gilfillan’s words, “Observation...
Arthur Machen and Montgomery Evans
Letters of a Literary Friendship, 1923-1947
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Arthur Machen (1863-1947), who achieved significant fame in the 1920s, was a general man of letters with echoes of Samuel Johnson, an important influence on later fantasy writers from H. P. Lovecraft to Ray Bradbury, and a great adventurer of the spirit. Montgomery Evans II, a wealthy book collector...
Creatures of Change
An Album of Ohio Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1998
Ohio was once covered by a thick forest and populated by a great variety of animals, but the first blows of settlers axes heralded cataclysmic changes. By 1900 only about 15 percent of the state remained tree-covered. The effects of settlement upon native animal species varied widely, and the fortunes...
Ida McKinley
The Turn-of-the-Century First Lady Through War, Assassination, and Secret Disability
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Published in cooperation with The National First Ladies Library
This is the first full-length biography of Ida Saxton McKinley (1847– 1907), the wife of William McKinley, president of the United States from 1897 to his assassination in 1901. Long demeaned by history because she suffered from...
Above and Beyond
Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
“Above and Beyond is a treat. Livingston’s knowledge and love of the sport shines through.”—David Maraniss, author of Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
Two Olympic medalists were recognized at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, days before Christmas 2004. One was the...
by Hannah Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified.
Cadence captures the poet’s point of view as a new mother, reveling...
Cosmographical Glasses
Geographic Discouse, Gender, and Elizabethan Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
A fresh perspective on Elizabethan fiction
In Cosmographical Glasses Constance Relihan examines the ways in which sixteenth-century English texts—traveler’s reports, ethnographic studies, and geographic guides—provide the foundation for how fictional prose of the period envisions the...
Safe For Decolonization
The Eisenhower Administration, Britain, and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
How America left its indelible footprint on the culture and politics of Singapore
In the first decade after World War II, Singapore underwent radical political and socioeconomic changes with the progressive retreat of Great Britain from its Southeast Asian colonial empire. The United States,...
Creating People of Plenty
The United States and Japan's Economic Alternatives, 1950-1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
“There is no doubt that the Eisenhower administration accomplished one of its paramount Cold War strategic objectives: to rebuild Japan’s economy and reinstate the nation as a stabilizing, pro-capitalist member in the new world order that had come out of the morass of the Great Depression and...
Aftermath of War
Americans and the Remaking of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
With the fighting in World War II over in mid-August 1945, more than one-half million American troops moved to occupy Japan. Much of the country was ruined, buried under the rubble and debris of saturation bombing and the atomic blasts over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan’s rulers were stunned by...
Leading Them to the Promised Land
Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology, and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1915
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
How Wilson’s religious heritage shaped his response to the Mexican Revolution
“In Wilson’s view, America had a part to play as a divine instrument. To deny the United States an active role in the world was an attempt to deny God’s will.” —from the Introduction
The First Amendment...