Kent Press imprint: 601 books
A New Book of the Grotesques
Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson's Early Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
The first extensive treatment of Sherwood Anderson's work from a postmodern perspective
Sherwood Anderson, remembered chiefly as a writer of short stories about life in the Midwest at the turn of the century, was acknowledged as an innovator of the short story form and a major influence on...
Under the Shadow
The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
In Pat Frank’s 1959 novel Alas, Babylon, the character Helen says of her children: “All their lives, ever since they’ve known anything, they’ve lived under the shadow of war—atomic war. For them the abnormal has become normal.” The threat of nuclear annihilation was a constant source of...
by Joe Bonomo
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1996
"Something spiritual, as weel as actual, is broken in the world Joe Bonomo offers us, in this his first sustained collection. His response to what he is left with is to remake what he can in figures of comprehension and compassion. The size of his world is local and familiar, but that hardly...
For Dear Life
And Selected Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The republication of this novel reintroduces readers to a strong southern writer, an interesting female voice, and a compelling story. This realistic portrayal of life among the rural poor of the early twentieth century shows the struggle of a tough-minded woman who fought her entire life to overcome...
Bloody Versicles
The Rhymes of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1993
An updated and enlarged edition of an annotated collection originally published more than 20 years ago, Bloody Versicles serves as two books in one: an anthology of ribald, moralistic, sad, yet amusing and entertaining verse relating to specific crimes; and a small encyclopedia of select criminals...
by Karen Kovacik
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In Beyond the Velvet Curtain, Karen Kovacik illustrates Czeslaw Miloxz’s dictum that “the purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.” Peopled with such diverse characters as Richard Nixon, Nikita Khruschev, Kafka’s father, Dorothea Lange, William Carlos...
The Righteous Remnant
The House of David
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Many Americans associate the House of David with its bearded barnstorming baseball teams of the 1920s and ’30s. Others may recall the sex scandal associated with the group, a scandal that gave newspapers during the first years after World War I some added spice. Still, others may know it as a religious...
by Allan Peskin
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Winfield Scott (1786-1866) was arguably the premier soldier of his era. More than any other, he was responsible for the professionalization of the U.S. Army during his long career (1807-61). He served as general in the War of 1812, commander of the U.S. forces it the final campaign of the war with...
The Lincoln Assassination Riddle
Revisiting the Crime of the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Most Americans are aware that their sixteenth president was mortally wounded by a man named Booth at a Washington theater in April 1865. These are facts that nobody can dispute. However, a closer look at this history-changing catastrophe raises questions that have still not been fully answered. The...
The Ohio Politics Almanac
Third Edition, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Roughly a century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt said, “I think there is only one thing in the world I can’t understand, and that is Ohio politics.” If The Ohio Politics Almanac had existed then, Roosevelt still might not have understood Ohio politics, but it wouldn’t have been for lack...
Uruguay and the United States, 1903-1929
Diplomacy in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
A comprehensive history of the relationship between the United States and reformist Uruguay
Despite its fascinating history, the attention paid by North American historians to Uruguay, a nation nestled in the corner of South America between Argentina and Brazil, is scant when compared to that...
The Alternate History
Refigurng Historical Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time examines alternate history science fiction using the eschatological, genetic, entropic, and teleological historical models. Hellekson’s original approach explains much of the appeal of alternate history and distinguishes among the many varieties...
Broken Glass
Caleb Cushing and the Shattering of the Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2001
One of the most colorful, controversial, and misunderstood public figures of the 19th century
“The most hated man in New England,”as critics dubbed him on the eve of the Civil War, Caleb Cushing, brash and controversial, was perhaps the last of 19th-century America’s renaissance figures....
by Ellis Yochelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927) is one of the most important and highly respected figures in the history of geology. This in-depth biography documents his career and life from birth to retirement from the U.S. Geological Survey in 1907, when he became Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
With...