The Kent State University Press: 559 books
Child of the Sit-Downs
The Revolutionary Life of Genora Dollinger
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
ForeWord Magazine 2008 Silver Award Winner for Excellence in Biography!
A biography of a prominent labor reformer and early feminist
Strikes affect entire communities, and in the end they need the communities’ support to succeed. This was exemplified in the legendary 1937 sit-down...
by Lester Goran
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Lester Goran's first book of short stories, Tales from the Irish Club, was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as a “Notable Book of the Year 1996.” This second collection also centers around a group of men and women in an Irish-American enclave in Pittsburgh, primarily during the years surrounding...
A Singing Ambivalence
American Immigrants Between Old World and New, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
A Singing Ambivalence is a comprehensive examination of the ways in which nine immigrant groups—Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Eastern European Jews, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Chinese, and Mexicans—responded to their new lives in the United States through music. Each group’s songs reveal...
by Steven Florczyk
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Ernest Hemingway’s initiation into war
Ernest Hemingway’s enlistment with the American Red Cross during World War I was one of the most formative experiences of his life, and it provided much of the source material for A Farewell to Arms and his writings about Italy and the Great War. As...
Bloody Dawn
The Story of the Lawrence Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 400 Confederate irregulars to a rise on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas. For two years, the 3,000 inhabitants of this prosperous frontier community had managed to escape the Civil War which raged in the East. At Quantrill’s command, the horrors of that...
Rhetorical Drag
Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
An innovative discussion of this unique genre of American literature
In this fresh examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity narratives, author Lorrayne Carroll argues that male editors and composers impersonated the women presumed to be authors of...
Melville as Poet
The Art of Pulsed Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Herman Melville’s literary reputation is based chiefly on his fiction, especially Moby-Dick and Billy Budd. Yet he was a gifted poet, as evidenced by his collection of Civil War poems, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), and by his epic-length poem, Clarel (1876), a symbolic rendering of...
There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale
More Essays on Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2017
Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and co-creator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engagement with fairy stories, the special world that he called faërie, a world they both create and inhabit, and with the elements that make that world the special...
C. S. Lewis's Perelandra
Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The first single-volume study of an important Lewis novel
C. S. Lewis considered his novel Perelandra (1943) among his best works. A triumph of imaginative science fiction, Perelandra—the second volume of Lewis’s “Space Trilogy”—is also theologically ambitious. C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra:...
Sundays in the Pound
The Heroics and Heartbreak of the 1985-89 Cleveland Browns
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
The essential guide to every game in Browns history
Every Sunday in autumn, a new chapter is written in the long and storied history of the Cleveland Browns. Win or lose, with each contest, the mythos of this beloved franchise is extended and enriched in the hearts of the sport’s most loyal...
Hunting the Unicorn
A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
A significant poet in her own right, Ruth Pitter has long deserved this biography, which thoughtfully assesses her place in the British poetic landscape. Popular in the United Kingdom from the early 1930s until her death in 1992, Pitter won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature in 1937 for A Trophy...
by Doris T. Myers
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Although C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) achieved a level of popularity as a fiction writer, literary scholars have tended to view him as a minor figure working in an insignificant genre-science fiction-or have pigeonholed him as a Christian apologist and moralist. In C. S. Lewis in Context, Doris T. Myers...
Modernizing the American War Department
Change and Continuity in a Turbulent Era, 1885-1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
An important study of the evolution of the U.S. War Department
Not a simple, linear administrative history, Modernizing the American War Department is a unique study of the adjustment of nineteenth-century military organizations to the managerial, technological, and policy challenges of a new...
Johnson's Island
A Prison for Confederate Officers
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In 1861, Lt. Col. William Hoffman was appointed to the post of commissary general of prisoners and urged to find a suitable site for the construction of what was expected to be the Union’s sole military prison. After inspecting four islands in Lake Erie, Hoffman came upon one in Sandusky Bay known...