University Of Virginia Press imprint: 344 books
Locating the Destitute
Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
While postcolonial discourse in the Caribbean has drawn attention to colonialism’s impact on space and spatial hierarchy, Stanka Radović asks both how ordinary people as "users" of space have been excluded from active and autonomous participation in shaping their daily spatial reality...
Beautiful Deceptions
European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shrewd adventurers; and innocent sentimental heroines fall...
by Richard Rorty, Mary Varney Rorty
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Undeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical where others were abstract, the late Richard Rorty was described by some as a philosopher with no philosophy. Rorty was skeptical of systems claiming to have answers, seeing scientific and aesthetic schools as vocabularies rather than as indispensable...
Collegiate Republic
Cultivating an Ideal Society in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Collegiate Republic offers a compellingly different view of the first generation of college communities founded after the American Revolution. Such histories have usually taken the form of the institutional tale, charting the growth of a single institution and the male minds within it. Focusing on...
The Ghost behind the Masks
The Victorian Poets and Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
In The Ghost behind the Masks, W. David Shaw traces Shakespeare’s influence on nine Victorian poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Swinburne, Arthur Hugh Clough, and George Meredith. Often, he writes, the...
Grief and Meter
Elegies for Poets after Auden
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
The elegizing of poets is one of the oldest and most enduring traditions in English poetry. Many of the most influential and best-known poems in the language—such as Milton’s "Lycidas," Shelley’s "Adonais," and Auden’s "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"—are elegies...
Exodus Politics
Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Using the term "exodus politics" to theorize the valorization of black male leadership in the movement for civil rights, Robert J. Patterson explores the ways in which the political strategies and ideologies of this movement paradoxically undermined the collective enfranchisement of black...
Vernon Lee
A Literary Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2003
Vernon Lee, born Violet Paget in 1856 to English parents who lived on the Continent, bridged two worlds and many cultures. She was a Victorian by birth but lived into the second quarter of the twentieth century. Her chosen home was Italy, but she spent part of every year in England, where she published...
The New Death
American Modernism and World War I
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Adopting the term "new death," which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James uncovers several touchstones of American modernism that refer to and narrate traumatic death. The sense of paradox was pervasive: death was both...
Historian
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
In this eloquent memoir, already widely read and praised in the author’s native South Africa, Hermann Giliomee weaves together the story of his own life with that of his country--a nation that continues to absorb and inspire him, both despite and because of its tortuous history.
An...
by Edward J. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
George Washington was the unanimous choice of his fellow founders for president, and he is remembered to this day as an exceptional leader, but how exactly did this manifest itself during his lifetime? In George Washington, Nationalist, acclaimed author Edward J. Larson reveals the fascinating backstory...
Gold and Freedom
The Political Economy of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Historians have long treated Reconstruction primarily as a southern concern isolated from broader national political developments. Yet at its core, Reconstruction was a battle for the legacy of the Civil War that would determine the political fate not only of the South but of the nation.
In...
Confederate Visions
Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Nationalism in nineteenth-century America operated through a collection of symbols, signifiers citizens could invest with meaning and understanding. In Confederate Visions, Ian Binnington examines the roots of Confederate nationalism by analyzing some of its most important symbols: Confederate constitutions,...
Slavery and War in the Americas
Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaign in South America--the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864–70, which galvanized four countries and became the longest large-scale international conflict...