University Of Virginia Press: 345 books
Dancing with Disaster
Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to...
You Come Too
My Journey with Robert Frost
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Robert Frost observed in his wife, Elinor, a desire to live "a life that goes rather poetically." The same could be said of many members of the Frost family, over several generations. In You Come Too, Frost’s granddaughter, Lesley Lee Francis, combines priceless personal memories and rigorous research...
by Fawzia Zouari, Susan Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
The first novel available to English readers by Fawzia Zouari, one of the most important North African authors writing today, begins with an emergency crew’s arrival at a Parisian apartment. Two emaciated young women, sisters, are brought out on stretchers. To the crowd of onlookers the women’s...
Women Writers of the Beat Era
Autobiography and Intertextuality
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The Beat Generation was a group of writers who rejected cultural standards, experimented with drugs, and celebrated sexual liberation. Starting in the 1950s with works such as Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, and William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, the Beat Generation defined...
In Search of Annie Drew
Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
There is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer’s canon as Jamaica Kincaid’s mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its apparent theme, actually relates to Kincaid’s...
by Suzanne Dracius, Edwin C. Hill Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Climb to the Sky collects a novella and eight stories by one of the most celebrated and versatile French Caribbean writers, Suzanne Dracius. Set in the author’s native Martinique and spanning the twentieth century, these narratives display a powerful grasp of the individual set against an often...
The Oglethorpe Plan
Enlightenment Design in Savannah and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The statesman and reformer James Oglethorpe was a significant figure in the philosophical and political landscape of eighteenth-century British America. His social contributions—all informed by Enlightenment ideals—included prison reform, the founding of the Georgia Colony on behalf of the "worthy...
The Camaro in the Pasture
Speculations on the Cultural Landscape of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Robert Riley has been a renowned figure in landscape studies for over fifty years, valued for his perceptive, learned, and highly entertaining articles, reviews, and essays. Much of Riley’s work originally ran in Landscape, the pioneering magazine at which Riley succeeded the great geographer J....
Becoming Men of Some Consequence
Youth and Military Service in the Revolutionary War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Young Continental soldiers carried a heavy burden in the American Revolution. Their experiences of coming of age during the upheavals of war provide a novel perspective on the Revolutionary era, eliciting questions of gender, family life, economic goals, and politics. "Going for a soldier" forced...
Freud and Augustine in Dialogue
Psychoanalysis, Mysticism, and the Culture of Modern Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
"It is arguably the case," writes William Parsons, "that no two figures have had more influence on the course of Western introspective thought than Freud and Augustine." Yet it is commonly assumed that Freud and Augustine would have nothing to say to each other with regard to spirituality or mysticism,...
Inter-tech(s)
Colonialism and the Question of Technology in Francophone Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Challenging the notion that francophone literature generally valorizes a traditional, natural mode of being over a scientific, modern one, Inter-tech(s) proposes a new understanding of the relationship between France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean by exploring how various postindependence...
Partners or Rivals?
Power and Latino, Black, and White Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The emerging demographic and political presence of Latinos in the United States has moved the discussion of race relations beyond the terms of black and white. Using a variety of theoretical approaches, Betina Cutaia Wilkinson assesses Latinos', blacks', and whites' perceptions of commonality and...
A New Continent of Liberty
Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Beginning with the writings of Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by William Apess, Sarah Winnemucca, Zitkala-Ša, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich, Geoff Hamilton sketches a movement of gradual but resolute ascent in Native American literature....
In Pursuit of Wild Edibles
A Forager's Tour
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Today we care about the source of our food as much as the preparation, so it is no surprise that foodies have discovered wild edibles. From the most upscale restaurants in New York to humble farm stays in Europe, chefs and restaurant-goers alike are seeking pleasure in food found in the wild.
In...