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by James Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This is the first collection in book form of a number of Boyd's short stories. These stories are as particularly southern as their subject, the small southern community. They emphasize dialogue rather than description and illustrate the economy of the skilled writer who discards false ornaments of...
by Josephina Niggli
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This is a collection of ten absorbing stories, rich in setting, tense in action, and warm in their sympathy with the human comedy. The main interest in all the stories is the comedy or tragedy in the lives of the people, but each story has its own enveloping action of excitement and color. Pervading...
Invalid Women
Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
*"A fine example of politically engaged literary criticism.--Belles Lettres
"Price Herndl's compelling individual readings of works by major writers (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hawthorne, Wharton, James, Fitzgerald) and minor ones complement her examination of germ theory, psychic and...
The Works of James M. Whitfield
America and Other Writings by a Nineteenth-Century African American Poet
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S. Levine and Ivy G. Wilson restore this African American poet, abolitionist, and intellectual to his rightful place in the arts and politics of the nineteenth-century United States.
Whitfield's...
The Myth of the Picaro
Continuity and Transformation of the Picaresque Novel, 1554-1954
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This critical interpretation of the origins of modern fiction follows the transformation of the picaresque novel over four centuries through the literature of Spain, France, England, Germany, Russia, and the United States. Blackburn uses for the first time the resources of myth criticism to demonstrate...
Desperate Faith
A Study of Bellow, Salinger, Mailer, Baldwin, and Updike
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This book traces the developing view of the human conditions through the major works of these five writers. The method is inductive, and the works are seen as a record of human experience not as an illustration of philosophical theory. A final chapter places them in the larger perspective of traditional...
Sunstar and Pepper
Scouting with Jeb Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This stirring story of a scout with Jeb Stuart is fiction with an historical background. The action begins a few weeks after the Battle of Seven Pines in 1862 and ends shorly before the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863.
Originally published in 1947.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition --...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 3: History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, this volume broadly surveys history in the American South from the Paleoindian period (approximately 8000 B.C.E.) to the present. In 118 essays, contributors cover the turbulent...
Women with Alcoholic Husbands
Ambivalence and the Trap of Codependency
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In this important study of women with alcoholic husbands, Asher vividly describes the process of coming to terms with a profound crisis in one's private life. From interviews with more than fifty women, all of whom were participants in family treatment programs, she assembles a composite picture of...
Populist Vanguard
A History of the Southern Farmers' Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Significant as a political, economic, and social organization, the southern Farmers' Alliance was the largest and most influential farmers' organization in the history of the United States until the rise of the American Farm Bureau Federation. McMath suggests that the ideas advanced by the People's...
The Vietnam Lobby
The American Friends of Vietnam, 1955-1975
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Established in 1955 as a private advocacy group, the American Friends of Vietnam worked to influence U.S. attitudes and policies toward Vietnam for nearly two decades. AFV members wrote articles, gave speeches, sponsored aid drives, and forged ties with journalists, academics, and government officials...
Grassroots Garveyism
The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions and Garvey's most devoted and loyal followers...
by William G. Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
During World War I, the publishers of America's crusading black newspapers faced a difficult dilemma. Would it be better to advance the interests of African Americans by affirming their patriotism and offering support of President Wilson's war for democracy in Europe, or should they demand that the...
Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee
U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In this book, Gray Whaley examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native peoples--focusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality,...