University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
by Stephen E. Tabachnick
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Many Jewish artists and writers contributed to the creation of popular comics and graphic novels, and in The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel, Stephen E. Tabachnick takes readers on an engaging tour of graphic novels that explore themes of Jewish identity and belief.
The...
by Milton R. Stern, Mary McAleer Balkun, M. T. Inge
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature.
As the author of some of the most compelling short stories ever written, two of the central novels in American literature, and some of the most beautiful prose ever penned,...
Haunted Presence
The Numinous in Gothic Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Are ghosts, vampires, and other forms of “haunted presence” related to universal religious instincts? Are emotions that play a part in religious ritual and narrative similar to those in classical works of Gothic fiction such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Turn of the Screw, and the tales of Edgar...
In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx
Harry F. Ward and the Struggle for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This absorbing and insightful biography illuminates the life of the controversial champion of Social Gospel in early-20th-century America.
Radical religious and political leader Harry F. Ward started life quietly enough in a family of Methodist shopkeepers and butchers in London. But his relentless...
by Vicki Covington
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This thoughtful, engaging collection showcases the best nonfiction prose produced by one of the nation's most observant and incisive writers.
This collection of warm, heartfelt essays from award-winning novelist Vicki Covington chronicles the multitude of "in between" moments in the...
by Alan Sikes, Andrew Gibb, Nicole Berkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.
The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion...
by Ralph F. Voss
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Truman Capote and the Legacy ofIn Cold Blood is the anatomy of the origins of an American literary landmark and its legacy.
Ralph F. Vosswas a high school junior in Plainville, Kansas in mid-November of 1959 when four members of the Herbert Clutter family were murdered in Holcomb, Kansas,...
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 23
Theatre and Youth
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The curtain rises on Theatre and Youth, volume 23 of Theatre Symposium with keynote reflections by Suzan Zeder, the distinguished playwright of theatre for youth, and presents eleven original essays about theatre’s reflections of youth and the role of young people in making and performing theatre.
The...
by Lawrence A. Coben
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
A rare view of a childhood in a European ghetto.
Anna Spector was born in 1905 in Korsun, a Ukrainian town on the Ros River, eighty miles south of Kiev. Held by Poland until 1768 and annexed by the Tsar in 1793 Korsun and its fluid ethnic population were characteristic of the Pale...
Pecan
America's Native Nut Tree
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Written in a manner suitable for a popular audience and including color photographs and recipes for some common uses of the nut, Pecan: America’s Native Nut Tree gathers scientific, historical, and anecdotal information to present a comprehensive view of the largely unknown story of the pecan.
From...
Memoirs of the Civil War
Between the Northern and Southern Sections of the United States of America 1861 to 1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
“William Wilson Chamberlaine’s Memoirs of the Civil War, though relatively little known because of its rarity in the original edition, contains much valuable information and engaging narrative passages. A Virginian whose Confederate career included service in an infantry regiment early in the...
Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women
Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth century.
Great Britain’s forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain’s...
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942
A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania's Contested Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942 offers a wealth of primary sources and insightful commentary about the little-known slaughter of Jewish residents of Kishinev (Chisinau) under the military occupation by Romania under Marshal Ion Antonescu, a Hitler ally.?
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942 sheds...
by Harold K. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
The writer’s fascination with America’s spiritual and religious evolution in the 19th century.
Mark Twain is often pictured as a severe critic of religious piety, shaking his fist at God and mocking the devout. Such a view, however, is only partly correct. It ignores the social realities...