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Dilemmas of the Angels
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
In the series of poems that underpins this collection, David Romtvedt imagines the daily lives of angels as well as other, more earthly, concerns. Whether he is considering the work of raising a child or imagining the work of the divine, Romtvedt displays an appreciation for all that surrounds us....
Possessing the Past
Trauma, Imagination, and Memory in Post-Plantation Southern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Employing recent theories of memory from multiple areas of study, Possessing the Past illuminates the tangled relationships among trauma, fantasy, and the public sphere, and their impact on the "South" in imagination and in reality. Focusing on the roles that narrative and fantasy play in creating...
Secessionists and Other Scoundrels
Selections from Parson Brownlow's Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
"Readers will find Brownlow unique, above all, but as entertaining as he is sometimes thrillingly loathsome, full of great energy and rhetorical skill and rambunctiousness in the tradition of the tall tale vernacular writers of the time." -- David Madden, Director of the United States Civil War Center
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River Road Rambler
A Curious Traveler along Louisiana's Historic Byway
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge hosts a fascinating mix of people, traditions, and stories. Author Mary Ann Sternberg has spent over two decades exploring this historic corridor, uncovering its intriguing and often-underappreciated places. In River Road Rambler, she presents fifteen...
River Road Rambler Returns
More Curiosities along Louisiana's Historic Byway
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
In River Road Rambler Returns: More Curiosities along Louisiana’s Historic Byway, Mary Ann Sternberg follows up her successful River Road Rambler with new delightful histories from Louisiana’s most famous route. Her latest explorations include a trip on a towboat as it pushes a fleet of barges...
In the Shadow of the Black Beast
African American Masculinity in the Harlem and Southern Renaissances
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Andrew B. Leiter presents the first book-length study of the sexually violent African American man, or "black beast," as a composite literary phenomenon. According to Leiter, the black beast theme served as a fundamental link between the Harlem and Southern Renaissances, with writers from both movements...
Pistols And Politics
The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810--1899
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
In the nineteenth-century South, there existed numerous local pockets where cultures and values different from those of the dominant planter class prevailed. One such area was the Florida parishes of southeastern Louisiana, where peculiar conditions combined to create an enclave of white yeomen. In...
The Retreats of Thought
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Kelly Cherry, who studied philosophy in graduate school at the University of Virginia, has never lost her deep love of the subject; The Retreats of Thought takes the reader through the philosophical domain. What do we really know of our world? Why is there anything at all? What is time? What is a...
Defining Culinary Authority
The Transformation of Cooking in France, 1650-1830
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, French cooks began to claim central roles in defining and enforcing taste, as well as in educating their diners to changing standards. Tracing the transformation of culinary trades in France during the Revolutionary era, Jennifer J. Davis argues that the...
by Karl F. Zender
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The life expectancy in Shakespearean times averaged only about twenty-five to thirty-five years, but those who survived the illnesses of infancy and childhood could look forward to a long life with nearly the same level of confidence as someone living now. But even so long ago, some faced conflicts...
by Parley Ann Boswell, Dustin Faulstick, Anna Green
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism is the first book to examine the connections linking two major American writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In twelve critical essays, accompanied by a foreword from Wharton scholar Laura Rattray and a critical introduction...
To the North Anna River
Grant and Lee, May 13–25, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
With To the North Anna River, the third book in his outstanding five-book series, Gordon C. Rhea continues his spectacular narrative of the initial campaign between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in the spring of 1864. May 13 through 25, a phase oddly ignored by historians, was critical in the...
The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn
Illustrated Sketches from the Daily City Item
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Lafcadio Hearn (1850--1904) was a master satirist who displayed a fiery wit both as a writer and as an artist. For seven months in 1880, he surprised and amused the readers of New Orleans with his wood-block "cartoons" and accompanying articles, which were variously funny, scathing, surreal, political,...
by Jeanne deLavigne
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
"He struck a match to look at his watch. In the flare of the light they saw a young woman just at Pitot's elbow -- a young woman dressed all in black, with pale gold hair, and a baby sleeping on her shoulder. She glided to the edge of the bridge and stepped noiselessly off into the black waters."...