University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Wings of Gold
An Account of Naval Aviation Training in World War II, The Correspondence of Aviation Cadet/Ensign Robert R. Rea
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Wings of Gold makes a unique contribution to the history of naval aviation. The book sets out the day-to-day experiences and reactions of a cadet who went through the aviation training program at its peak during World War II. An emphasis on training is missing in almost all books dealing with that...
A Morning in June
Defending Outpost Harry
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
By June 1953 the Korean War, marked at the outset by extremely fluid advances and retreats up and down the peninsula, had settled into position warfare very near the original pre-war demarcation line between North and South Korea. At this point both sides were fighting to win a peace, to achieve incremental...
by Marilyn M. Cooper, John Muckelbauer, Christa Teston
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A fascinating addition to rhetoric scholarship, Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things expands the scope of rhetorical situations beyond the familiar humanist triad of speaker-audience-purpose to an inclusive study of inanimate objects.
The fifteen essays in Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things persuasively...
by James Giles
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in 10 contemporary American novels.
James R. Giles examines 10 novels for the unique ways they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell Banks’s Affliction, Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and...
The Ecology of Modernism
American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent...
The Modernist Nation
Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
The Modernist Nation examines why America's modern literary movements have come to be characterized as "generations" and "renaissances," such as the Lost Generation and the Beat Generation or the Harlem, Southern, and San Francisco Renaissances. The metaphor of rebirth, Michael...
Voices in the Wilderness
Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
What has gone wrong with discourse and deliberation in the United States? It remains monologic, argues Patricia Roberts-Miller in Voices in the Wilderness, which traces America’s dominant form of argumentation back to its roots in the rhetorical tradition of 17th-century American Puritans. A work...
Eclipse of Empires
World History in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Eclipse of Empires analyzes the nineteenth-century American fascination with what Patricia Jane Roylance calls “narratives of imperial eclipse,” texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilization by another.
Patricia Jane Roylance’s central claim in Eclipse of Empires is that...
John Steinbeck
The Years of Greatness, 1936-1939
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This volume is derived from papers presented by the North American delegates at the Third International Steinbeck Congress, held in May 1990 in Honolulu, Hawaii, under the co-sponsorship of the Steinbeck Society of Japan and the International Steinbeck Society. These ten essays, arranged in two parts,...
Modern Occult Rhetoric
Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse.
The occult has traditionally been understood as the study of secrets of the practice of mysticism or magic. This book broadens our understanding of the occult by treating it as...
Confederate Arkansas
The People and Policies of a Frontier State in Wartime
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
This book fills a long standing gap in state histories dealing with the period of the Civil War in the western frontier that was Arkansas. Based on newspaper articles, legal documents, letters, diaries, reminiscences, songs, and official military reports, Dougan’s account provides a full picture...
by Janis P. Stout
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
A masterful study by a preeminent scholar that situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism
Willa Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a social realist. In Cather Among the Moderns, Janis P. Stout firmly situates Cather as a visionary...
Coming Out of War
Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
World War I is widely considered “the Great War” and World War II, “the Good War.” Janis Stout thinks of them as two parts of a whole that continues to engage historians and literary scholars searching for an understanding of both the actual war experiences and the modern culture of grief...
Confederate Home Front
Montgomery during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
With this superbly written, meticulously researched, and concisely argued study, Rogers has helped deepen our understanding of the Confederate civilian experience.
Drawing from a wealth of historic documents and personal papers, William Warren Rogers, Jr., provides a fascinating and detailed...