University Of Iowa Press: 221 books
Gardening with Native Plants in the Upper Midwest
Bringing the Tallgrass Prairie Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Want to have a garden that is both beautiful and biodiverse, satisfying and sustainable? In this book, long-time landscape designer Judy Nauseef shows gardeners in the upper Midwest how to restore habitat and diversity to their piece of the planet by making native plants part of well-designed, thoughtfully...
The Lost Region
Toward a Revival of Midwestern History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The American Midwest is an orphan among regions. In comparison to the South, the far West, and New England, its history has been sadly neglected. To spark more attention to their region, midwestern historians will need to explain the Midwest’s crucial roles in the development of the entire country:...
The Best Specimen of a Tyrant
The Ambitious Dr. Abraham Van Norstrand and the Wisconsin Insane Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
In 1847, young Dr. Abraham Van Norstrand left Vermont to seek his fortune in the West, but in Wisconsin his business ventures failed, and a medical practice among hard-up settlers added little to his pocketbook. During the Civil War he organized and ran one of the army’s biggest hospitals but resigned...
Reading as Collective Action
Text as Tactics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Literature is powerful. It offers respite. It provides access to beauty and horror, to new places, new people, and new ideas. It can, as the phrase goes, change your life. Good things, all of them. But also somewhat limited goods: they’re all pretty passive, pretty private—you might even say self-centered.
Reading...
Women in Agriculture
Professionalizing Rural Life in North America and Europe, 1880-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Women have always been skilled at feeding their families, and historians have often studied the work of rural women on farms and in their homes. However, the stories of women who worked as agricultural researchers, producers, marketers, educators, and community organizers have not been told until...
Teaching Tainted Lit
Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Popular American fiction has now secured a routine position in the higher education classroom despite its historic status as culturally suspect. This newfound respect and inclusion have almost certainly changed the pedagogical landscape, and Teaching Tainted Lit explores that altered terrain. If the...
Metamedia
American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Does literature need the book? With electronic texts and reading devices growing increasingly popular, the codex is no longer the default format of fiction. Yet as Alexander Starre shows in Metamedia, American literature has rediscovered the book as an artistic medium after the first e-book hype in...
Gathering Noise from My Life
A Camouflaged Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The noise gathered from a lifetime of engaging with war, race, religion, memory, illness, and family echoes through the vignettes, quotations, graffiti, and poetry that Donald Anderson musters here, fragments of the humor and horror of life, the absurdities that mock reason and the despair that yields...
A Brighter Word Than Bright
Keats at Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The Romantic poet John Keats, considered by many as one of the greatest poets in the English language, has long been the subject of attention from scholars who seek to understand him and poets who seek to emulate him. Bridging these impulses, A Brighter Word Than Bright is neither historical biography...
The Prairie in Seed
Identifying Seed-Bearing Prairie Plants in the Upper Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The tallgrass prairie offers solutions to the many environmental challenges facing our water, soils, and ecosystems. Planting prairie on just 10 percent of a field can effectively remove excess phosphorous and nitrogen from the remaining 90 percent. Deep prairie roots and dense aboveground growth...
The Portrait and the Book
Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In the nineteenth century, new image-making methods like steel engraving and lithography caused a surge in the publication of illustrated books in the United States. Yet even before the widespread use of these technologies, Americans had already established the illustrated book format as central to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Pynchon’s California is the first book to examine Thomas Pynchon’s use of California as a setting in his novels. Throughout his 50-year career, Pynchon has regularly returned to the Golden State in his fiction. With the publication in 2009 of his third novel set there, the significance of California...
by Alexandria Peary
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
“‘Go play!’ advises Peary in her third collection, and we do, with ‘a tassel of rain,’ with ‘dove-colored sounds’ and ‘starter castles.’ The topos is New England archaeology; it’s Colorforms and Legos; Charley Harper landscapes become interiors; we are delighted to already find...
by Allegra Hyde
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Of This New World offers a menagerie of utopias: real, imagined, and lost. Starting with the Garden of Eden and ending in a Mars colony, the stories wrestle with conflicts of idealism and practicality, communal ambition and individual kink. Stories jump between genres—from historical fiction to...