Lsu Press: 854 books
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren
Toward Sunset, at a Great Height, 1980–1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
In the last decade of his life, Robert Penn Warren remained a vibrant force in American literature, producing new works of poetry and nonfiction while also dealing courageously with the gradual decline of his health and the diminishment of his poetic powers. Toward Sunset, at a Great Height, 1980--1989,...
The Fourth Ghost
White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
In the 1949 classic Killers of the Dream, Lillian Smith described three racial "ghosts" haunting the mind of the white South: the black woman with whom the white man often had sexual relations, the rejected child from a mixed-race coupling, and the black mammy whom the white southern child...
Ledgers of History
William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Emory University professor Sally Wolff has carried on a fifty-year tradition of leading students on expeditions to "Faulkner country" in and around Oxford, Mississippi. Not long ago, she decided to invite alumni on one of these field trips. One response to the invitation surprised her: "I...
by Kate Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
With A Walk in Victoria’s Secret, Kate Daniels crafts a bold, brassy, yet delicate vision of a woman’s growth. Imbued with a unique poetic voice that is utterly feminist, these poems possess a fiery intensity for those abuses no woman can ever quite recover from, but also reveal the loving, forgiving...
Cosmos
A Poem
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Throughout his long career, James Applewhite has skillfully navigated the world of science through poetry. His new book makes no exception, fearlessly exploring time and consciousness in relation to the universe as described by Big Bang cosmology -- and as experienced by human beings in the everyday...
Peculiar Crossroads
Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
In Peculiar Crossroads, Farrell O'Gorman explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor's and Walker Percy's vision made them so valuable as southern fiction writers and social critics. Via their spiritual and philosophical concerns, O'Gorman asserts, these two unabashedly Catholic...
Mary Boykin Chesnut
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1992
"In her admirable biography of Mary Chesnut, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld has American literature as well as American history in her debt." -- C. Vann Woodward
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823--1886) is known today for her excellent firsthand account of life in the Confederate States of America....
The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery
Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
In The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery, W. Caleb McDaniel sets forth a new interpretation of the Garrisonian abolitionists, stressing their deep ties to reformers and liberal thinkers in Great Britain and Europe. The group of American reformers known as "Garrisonians" included,...
Portrait of a Scientific Racist
Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
In the years after Reconstruction, racial tension soared, as many white southerners worried about how to deal with the millions of free African Americans among them -- an issue they termed the "negro problem." In an attempt to maintain the status quo, white supremacists resurrected old proslavery...
Inside the Carnival
Unmasking Louisiana Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
With both an entertainer’s eye and a social scientist’s rigor, Wayne Parent subjects Louisiana’s politics to rational and empirical analysis, seeking and finding coherent reasons for the state’s well-known unique history. He resists resorting to vague hand-waving about “exoticism,” while...
by Jessica Hooten Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Walker Percy (1916–1990) considered novels the strongest tool with which to popularize great ideas among a broad audience, and, more than half a century after they first appeared in print, his works of fiction continue to fascinate contemporary readers. Despite their lasting appeal, however, Percy’s...
The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
In his in-depth analysis of the works of Ann Petry (1908--1997), Keith Clark moves beyond assessments of Petry as a major mid-twentieth-century African American author and the sole female member of the "Wright School of Social Protest." He focuses on her innovative approaches to gender performance,...
The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress
Poor White Women in Southern Literature of the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
In The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress, Ashley Craig Lancaster examines how converging political and cultural movements helped to create dualistic images of southern poor white female characters in Depression-era literature. While other studies address the familial and labor issues that...
Faithful Vision
Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
"This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature
In Faithful Vision, James W. Coleman places under his critical lens a wide array of African American novels written during the last half...