University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Continuing Bonds with the Dead
Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Harold K. Bush's Continuing Bonds with the Dead examines the profound transfiguration that the death of a child wrought on the literary work of nineteenth-century American writers. Taking as his subjects Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois,...
Time in the Barrel
A Marine’s Account of the Battle for Con Thien
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War
Con Thien, located only two miles from the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Vietnam, was a United States Marine Corps firebase that was the scene of fierce combat for months on...
Splendid Land, Splendid People
The Chickasaw Indians to Removal
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Before the Chickasaws were removed to lands in Oklahoma in the 1800s, the heart of the Chickasaw Nation was located east of the Mississippi River in the upper watershed of the Tombigbee River in what is today northeastern Mississippi. Their lands had been called "splendid and fertile" by...
Doctrine and Race
African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism.
By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism,...
by Louis F. Burns
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Traces 400 years of Osage culture from prehistoric times to the group's current status as an officially recognized tribe.
Osage traditional lands are located in mid-continental America encompassed by the present-day states of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Major waterways through...
Achilles and the Tortoise
Mark Twain's Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Covering the entire body of Mark Twain's fiction, Clark Griffith in Achilles and the Tortoise answers two questions: How did Mark Twain write? And why is he funny? Griffith defines and demonstrates Mark Twain's poetics and, in doing so, reveals Twain's ability to create and sustain human laughter.
Through...
Mark Twain at Home
How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Twain scholar Michael J. Kiskis opens this fascinating new exploration of Twain with the observation that most readers have no idea that Samuel Clemens was the father of four and that he lived through the deaths of three of his children as well as his wife. In Mark Twain at Home: How Family Shaped...
by Peter Betjemann, Sari Edelstein, Catherine J. Golden
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A compelling critical investigation into Gilman’s conception of setting and place
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America is a pioneering collection that probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment....
by Stephen Howard Browne, Barbara Biesecker, Barbie Zelizer
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories.
The study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications....
The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia
The Drums of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The contemporary Monacan Nation had approximately 1,400 registered members in 2006, mostly living in and around Lynchburg, Virginia, in Amherst County, but some are scattered like any other large family. Records trace the Monacans of Virginia back to the late 1500s, with an estimated population of...
Haunting Realities
Naturalist Gothic and American Realism
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism is an innovative collection of essaysexamining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities.
Following the golden age of British Gothic in the...
The Vast and Terrible Drama
American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A broad treatment of the cultural, social, political, and literary under-pinnings of an entire period and movement in American letters
The Vast and Terrible Drama is a critical study of the context in which authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser,...
Fighting Words
Polemics and Social Change in Literary Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Fighting Words offers an entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters.
Ira Wells, countering the standard narrative of literary naturalism’s much-touted concern with environmental and philosophical determinism, draws attention to the polemical essence...
by Sandra A. Zagarell, Margaret A. Amstutz, Paul Crumbley
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Elizabeth Stoddard was a gifted writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism; successfully published within her own lifetime; esteemed by such writers as William Dean Howells and Nathaniel Hawthorne; and situated at the epicenter of New York's literary world. Nonetheless, she has been almost excluded...