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You Come Too

My Journey with Robert Frost

by Lesley Lee Francis
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015

Robert Frost observed in his wife, Elinor, a desire to live "a life that goes rather poetically." The same could be said of many members of the Frost family, over several generations. In You Come Too, Frost’s granddaughter, Lesley Lee Francis, combines priceless personal memories and rigorous research...
by Fawzia Zouari, Susan Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018

The first novel available to English readers by Fawzia Zouari, one of the most important North African authors writing today, begins with an emergency crew’s arrival at a Parisian apartment. Two emaciated young women, sisters, are brought out on stretchers. To the crowd of onlookers the women’s...

Women Writers of the Beat Era

Autobiography and Intertextuality

by Mary Paniccia Carden, Justin D. Neuman
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

The Beat Generation was a group of writers who rejected cultural standards, experimented with drugs, and celebrated sexual liberation. Starting in the 1950s with works such as Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, and William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, the Beat Generation defined...

In Search of Annie Drew

Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse

by Daryl Cumber Dance
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016

There is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer’s canon as Jamaica Kincaid’s mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its apparent theme, actually relates to Kincaid’s...
by Suzanne Dracius, Edwin C. Hill Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012

Climb to the Sky collects a novella and eight stories by one of the most celebrated and versatile French Caribbean writers, Suzanne Dracius. Set in the author’s native Martinique and spanning the twentieth century, these narratives display a powerful grasp of the individual set against an often...

The Oglethorpe Plan

Enlightenment Design in Savannah and Beyond

by Thomas D. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015

The statesman and reformer James Oglethorpe was a significant figure in the philosophical and political landscape of eighteenth-century British America. His social contributions—all informed by Enlightenment ideals—included prison reform, the founding of the Georgia Colony on behalf of the "worthy...

The Camaro in the Pasture

Speculations on the Cultural Landscape of America

by Robert B. Riley
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015

Robert Riley has been a renowned figure in landscape studies for over fifty years, valued for his perceptive, learned, and highly entertaining articles, reviews, and essays. Much of Riley’s work originally ran in Landscape, the pioneering magazine at which Riley succeeded the great geographer J....

Becoming Men of Some Consequence

Youth and Military Service in the Revolutionary War

by John A. Ruddiman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014

Young Continental soldiers carried a heavy burden in the American Revolution. Their experiences of coming of age during the upheavals of war provide a novel perspective on the Revolutionary era, eliciting questions of gender, family life, economic goals, and politics. "Going for a soldier" forced...

Freud and Augustine in Dialogue

Psychoanalysis, Mysticism, and the Culture of Modern Spirituality

by William B. Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

"It is arguably the case," writes William Parsons, "that no two figures have had more influence on the course of Western introspective thought than Freud and Augustine." Yet it is commonly assumed that Freud and Augustine would have nothing to say to each other with regard to spirituality or mysticism,...

Inter-tech(s)

Colonialism and the Question of Technology in Francophone Literature

by Roxanna Nydia Curto
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016

Challenging the notion that francophone literature generally valorizes a traditional, natural mode of being over a scientific, modern one, Inter-tech(s) proposes a new understanding of the relationship between France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean by exploring how various postindependence...

Partners or Rivals?

Power and Latino, Black, and White Relations in the Twenty-First Century

by Betina Cutaia Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015

The emerging demographic and political presence of Latinos in the United States has moved the discussion of race relations beyond the terms of black and white. Using a variety of theoretical approaches, Betina Cutaia Wilkinson assesses Latinos', blacks', and whites' perceptions of commonality and...

A New Continent of Liberty

Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich

by Geoff Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019

Beginning with the writings of Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by William Apess, Sarah Winnemucca, Zitkala-Ša, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich, Geoff Hamilton sketches a movement of gradual but resolute ascent in Native American literature....

In Pursuit of Wild Edibles

A Forager's Tour

by Jeffrey Greene
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

Today we care about the source of our food as much as the preparation, so it is no surprise that foodies have discovered wild edibles. From the most upscale restaurants in New York to humble farm stays in Europe, chefs and restaurant-goers alike are seeking pleasure in food found in the wild. In...

Citizens of Convenience

The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border

by Lawrence B. A. Hatter
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016

Like merchant ships flying flags of convenience to navigate foreign waters, traders in the northern borderlands of the early American republic exploited loopholes in the Jay Treaty that allowed them to avoid border regulations by constantly shifting between British and American nationality. In Citizens...
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