University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Unity in Christ and Country
American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
In this compelling account, William Harrison Taylor examines the interdenominational pursuits of the American Presbyterian Church from 1758 to 1801 to highlight the church’s ambitious agenda of fostering and uniting a host of New World values, among them Christendom, nationalism, and territorial...
The Cana Sanctuary
History, Diplomacy, and Black Catholic Marriage in Antebellum St. Augustine, Florida
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
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The Cana Sanctuary uses the collective testimony from more than two hundred Patriot War claims, previously believed to have been destroyed, to offer insight into the lesser-known Patriot War of 1812 and to constitute an intellectual history of...
South by Southwest
Katherine Anne Porter and the Burden of Texas History
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
An interdisciplinary study of Katherine Anne Porter’s troubled relationship to her Texas origins and southern roots, South by Southwest offers a fresh look at this ever-relevant author.
Today, more than thirty years after her death, Katherine Anne Porter remains a fascinating figure. Critics...
By the Noble Daring of Her Sons
The Florida Brigade of the Army of Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
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By the Noble Daring of Her Sons is a tale of ordinary Florida citizens who, during extraordinary times, were called to battle against their fellow countrymen.
Over the past twenty years, historians have worked diligently to explore...
Captives in Gray
The Civil War Prisons of the Union
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Partisans of each side, then and now, have vilified the other for maltreatment of their POWs, while seeking to excuse their own distressing record of prisoner...
Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics
Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Different as they were as poets, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, and Williams Carlos Williams grappled with the highly charged literary politics of the 1930s in comparable ways. As other writers moved sharply to the Left, and as leftist critics promulgated a proletarian aesthetics,...
Separate Spheres No More
Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both...
The Essential Hayim Greenberg
Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture, Socialism, and Zionism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Though well known to many scholars and critics in the field of Judaic studies, Hayim Greenberg remains relatively unknown. Since his death in 1953, Greenberg’s contributions to modern Jewish thought have largely fallen from view. In The Essential Hayim Greenberg: Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture,...
by Marcelo Morales
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Marcelo Morales’s The World as Presence*/El mundo como ser* showcases, for the first time in English, a challenging, bold, and vivid new voice in Cuban literature.
Marcelo Morales was born in Cuba in 1977. He is an established, prize-winning writer, yet he is younger in comparison to most of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Reagan and Public Discourse in America is a critical assessment of the impact of the administration of President Ronald Reagan on public discourse in the United States. The authors show that more than any president since John F. Kennedy, Reagan’s influence flowed from his rhetorical practices. And...
Phenomenal Reading
Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
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The essays in Phenomenal Reading entice readers to cross accepted barriers, and highlight the work of poets who challenge language-as-usual in academia and the culture at large.
Phenomenal Reading is comprised of essays that...
Mimetic Disillusion
Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. Dramatic Realism
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Mimetic Disillusion reevaluates the history of modern U.S. drama, showing that at mid-century it turned in the direction of a poststructuralist "disillusionment with mimesis" or mimicry.
This volume focuses on two major writers of the 1930s and 1940s--Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Original essays by American and British scholars offer a reader-friendly introduction to the work of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and a dozen other British women writers.
British women in the second half of the 20th century have produced a body of work that is as diverse as it is entertaining....
The Objectivist Nexus
Essays in Cultural Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
"Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological...