University Of Virginia Press imprint: 344 books
The Flirt's Tragedy
Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2002
In the flirtation plots of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and W. M. Thackeray, heroines learn sociability through competition with naughty coquette-doubles. In the writing of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, flirting harbors potentially tragic consequences, a perilous game then adapted by...
Bathed in Blood
Hunting and Mastery in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
The hunt, like the church, courthouse, and family, played an integral role in southern society and culture during the antebellum era. Regardless of color or class, southern men hunted. Although hunters always recognized the tangible gains of their mission—meat, hides, furs—they also used the hunt...
Hometown Religion
Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
The pluralization of Christian religion was the defining fact of cultural life in sixteenth-century Europe. Everywhere they took root, ideas of evangelical reform disturbed the unity of religious observance on which political community was founded. By the third quarter of the sixteenth century, one...
Refiguring the Map of Sorrow
Nature Writing and Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2001
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in both autobiography and environmental literature. In Refiguring the Map of Sorrow, Mark Allister brings these two genres together by examining a distinct form of grief narrative, in which the writers deal with mourning by standing explicitly...
The Arresting Eye
Race and the Anxiety of Detection
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny Huh investigates anxieties about race and detection. Adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, she examines the racial formations of African Americans and Asian Americans...
Drawing the Line
The Father Reimagined in Faulkner, Wright, O'Connor, and Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
In an original contribution to the psychoanalytic approach to literature, Doreen Fowler focuses on the fiction of four major American writers—William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison—to examine the father's function as a "border figure." Although the father has most...
by Joy Wiltenburg
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
With the growth of printing in early modern Germany, crime quickly became a subject of wide public discourse. Sensational crime reports, often featuring multiple murders within families, proliferated as authors probed horrific events for religious meaning. Coinciding with heightened witch panics and...
Dialect Diversity in America
The Politics of Language Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect Diversity in America, Labov examines the diversity among American dialects and presents the counterintuitive finding that geographically localized...
A Cultural History of Underdevelopment
Latin America in the U.S. Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
A Cultural History of Underdevelopment explores the changing place of Latin America in U.S. culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the recent U.S.-Cuba détente. In doing so, it uncovers the complex ways in which Americans have imagined the global geography of poverty and progress, as the hemispheric...
Ersatz America
Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
From the popular legend of Pocahontas to the Civil War soap opera Gone with the Wind to countless sculpted heads of George Washington that adorn homes and museums, whole industries have emerged to feed America’s addiction to imaginary histories that cover up the often violent acts of building a...
Answering the Call of the Court
How Justices and Litigants Set the Supreme Court Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court is the quintessential example of a court that expanded its agenda into policy areas that were once reserved for legislatures. Yet scholars know very little about what causes attention to various policy areas to ebb and flow on the Supreme Court’s agenda. Vanessa A. Baird’s...
Barbaric Culture and Black Critique
Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
In an interdisciplinary study of black intellectual history at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan M. Wheelock shows how black antislavery writers were able to counteract ideologies of white supremacy while fostering a sense of racial community and identity. The major figures he discusses—Ottobah...
by William W. Freehling
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Shortlisted for the 2018 Lincoln Prize
Previous biographies of Abraham Lincoln—universally acknowledged as one of America’s greatest presidents—have typically focused on his experiences in the White House. In Becoming Lincoln, renowned historian William Freehling instead emphasizes the...
Four Fools in the Age of Reason
Laughter, Cruelty, and Power in Early Modern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows that laughter was an essential instrument of power. Whether jovial or cruel, mirth altered social and political relations.
Outram takes us first to the court of Frederick William I of Prussia,...