Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Ray Bradbury
The Life of Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
This is a textual, bibliographical and cultural study of 60 years of Bradbury’s fiction. The authors draw upon correspondence with his publishers, agents and friends, as well as archival manuscripts, to examine the story of Bradbury’s authorship over more than half a century.
Anuta
Polynesian Lifeways For The Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2013
Revised to stimulate and engage an undergraduate student audience, Feinberg’s updated account of Anuta opens with a chapter on his varied experiences when he initially undertook fieldwork in this tiny, isolated Polynesian community in the Solomon Islands. The following chapters explore dominant...
Fashioning Authority
The Development of Elizabethan Novelistic Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Various factors in late 16th-century England contributed to an environment more hospitable to prose fiction than had existed previously-among them, changes in educational opportunities, socioeconomic structures, literacy rates, and access to European literature. Such cultural alterations inevitably...
John J. Gilligan
The Politics of Principle
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
The life and public service of Ohio’s transformative governor
This first full-length biography of John Joyce Gilligan argues that Ohio’s sixty-second governor was the most significant Democrat in the state’s postwar years. But it is more than the story of a governor. Through painstaking...
Reading Hemingway's To Have and Have Not
Glossary and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Published in 1937, Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not is that rare example of a novel whose cultural impact far outweighs its critical reputation. Long criticized for its fragmented form, its ham-fisted approach to politics, and its hard-boiled obsession with cojones, this blistering tale of...
by Jonathan Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The brutal murder of Julia Wallace in 1931 became one of Britain’s great unsolved murders. People began arguing about the case almost immediately and continue to do so to this day.
Julia was the middle-aged wife of a mild-mannered Liverpool insurance agent, William Herbert Wallace. By all...
Terrorism for Self-Glorification
The Herostratos Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1969
Examines the motives of terrorists, from ancient Greece to the present day
“A unique work of. . . history, made all the more interesting by its relevance to the time in which we live.”
—James R. Elkins, editor of Legal Studies Forum
In this timely study of the roots of terrorism,...
Sword of the Border
Major General Jacob Jennings Brown, 1775-1828
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
Jacob Jennings Brown may well be the most successful—yet forgotten—general of his time. Born into a Pennsylvania Quaker family on the eve of the American Revolution, Brown worked as a Quaker schoolteacher and surveyor and was a pioneer settler of northern New York before serving in the U.S. Army...
Entangling Alliances with None
American Foreign Policy in the Age of Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1987
Written over a thirty-year period, the essays included in this volume develop one central theme: the completion of American isolationism in the formative years of the nation. Isolationism, in Kaplan’s view, is not to be taken as economic or cultural independence but as abstention from political...
by David Citino
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
David J. Citino’s Paperwork is a collection of previously published essays, pieces of memoir, and poetry set within the borders of Ohio. A native of Cleveland, Citino has lived in Ohio all his life.
Citino’s prose casts light on his poetry, and his poetry helps the reader understand his...
Edgar Huntly
Or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Often described as a "gothic novel," this is a classic American tale of mystery and murder with exciting and dramatic plot twists. Charles Brockden Brown is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and...
Mysterious Medicine
The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe were masters of mystery and fantasy, but they also engaged real controversies surrounding individual health, health care practice, and biomedical research in nineteenth-century America. During this volatile era, when mesmerists, phrenologists, and other pseudoscientists...
Yankee Dutchmen under Fire
Civil War Letters from the 82nd Illinois Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Life and death, pride and prejudice, and combat in an ethnic Civil War regiment
Thousands of volumes of Civil War letters are available, but little more than a dozen contain collections written by native Germans fighting in this great American conflict. Yankee Dutchmen under Fire presents a...
We Were the Ninth
A History of the Ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry April 17, 1861, to June 7, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
We Were The Ninth is a translation, carefully edited and thoroughly annotated, of an important Civil War regiment. The Ninth Ohio—composed of Ohio Germans mostly from Cincinnati—saw action at Rich Mountain and Carnifex Ferry in West Virginia, Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Hoovers Gap, Nashville, Chattanooga,...