Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Holding the Line
The Third Tennesse Regiment 1861-1864
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
FLAVEL C. BARBER’S memoir of his service with the Third Tennessee provides a rare contemporary history of a Confederate regiment. Major Barber’s imprisonment after the surrender of Fort Donelson spurred him to take pen in hand. What began as a way to “while away the tedious hours of imprisonment”...
The Story of A Thousand
A History of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
This facsimile edition of Albion W. Tourgées regimental history of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was first published in 1896. Tourgée, a lawyer and outspoken abolitionist from Williamsfield, Ohio, is best known for his semi-fictional novels about the reconstruction of the South following the Civil...
by Anthony Libby
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
“The publication of The Secret Turning of the Earth announces the arrival of an American poet who moves through space and time—the Venice of 1740, Paris in 1900, 1948 Boston, present day Columbus—exercising a singular vision. These strong, ambitious poems are mapped out by means of what Anthony...
Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines
Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
A cultural history of science and science fiction
Using key canonical science fiction narratives, Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines examines the intersection of the literary and scientific cultures of the nineteenth century. In this original and refreshing approach to the study of early science...
A Self-Evident Lie
Southern Slavery and the Threat to American Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
A Self-Evident Lie explores and underscores the fear and complex meaning of “slavery” to northerners before the Civil War. Many northerners asked: If slavery was the beneficent and paternalistic institution that southerners claimed, could it not be applied with equal morality to whites as well...
by Catherine Kenney
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1991
One of the most fascinating comments often made about Dorothy l. Sayers is that she wrote “real” novels. Catherine Kenney considers why Sayers mysteries tend to strike astute readers this way, and in so doing, suggests her place not only in the history of detection, but in the larger tradition...
by Janice Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1998
The impact of Dorothy L. Sayer’s work is a powerful one. She was a gifted artist who worked in many genres and addressed many issues, but her achievement goes beyond creative skill and variety of range. What she consistently communicates about Sin—the basic problem of human existence—provides...
by James R. Cowdery
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
This is a major work, at once synthetic and analytical. The author has drawn on previous studies of Irish music and general melodic theory to describe the inner workings of a rich melodic tradition. Irish folk music, resting upon monophonic melodies which are varied and ornamented, and thus viewed...
Melville and the Visual Arts
Ionian Form, Venetian Tint
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Throughout his professional life, Herman Melville displayed a keen interest in the visual arts. He alluded to works of art to embellish his poems and novels and made substantial use of the technique of ekphrasis, the literary description of works of visual arts, to give body to plot and character....
Reading Hemingway's Men Without Women
Glossary and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
“The aim of this book is not to have the final word on the meaning of the stories that compose Men Without Women. Rather, the study attempts to probe the events of each story as we encounter them. It seeks to explain historical references, to identify allusions, to see how form suggests meaning.”...
by Christine Gosnay
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
“The poems in Christine Gosnay’s first book, Even Years, speak with a voice that animates and astonishes us as they delineate and explore, trace and explode, the ‘order of shapes in the light’—the order of words, of moments in a life, of shifts in perspective between the ‘cleave and /...
Translation in African Contexts
Postcolonial Texts, Queer Sexuality, and Cosmopolitan Fluency
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Author Evan Maina Mwangi explores the intersection of translation, sexuality, and cosmopolitan ethics in African literature. Usually seen as the preserve of literature published by Euro-American metropolitan outlets for Western consumption, cultural translation is also a recurrent theme in postcolonial...
by Virginia Hansen Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
The experiences of an American family in the Philippines during World War II
Just nine days before her seventh birthday, Virginia Hansen Holmes heard about the attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor and wondered if this was going to change her life. She lived on the Philippine Island of...
by Joesph C. Sitterson Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Romantic Poems, Poets, and Narrators will be valuable to specialists not only in romantic period studies but in literary theory and poetics as well. Students of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats will appreciate these refreshingly subtle, tactful, and convincing new readings of the major romantic...