University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
by Leigh Clemons, Catherine H. Hughes, Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Enacting History is a collection of new essays exploring the world of historical performances. The volume focuses on performances outside the traditional sphere of theatre, among them living history museums, battle reenactments, pageants, renaissance festivals, and adventure-tourism destinations....
The Myth of Ephraim Tutt
Arthur Train and His Great Literary Hoax
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
The Myth of Ephraim Tutt explores the true and previously untold story behind one of the most elaborate literary hoaxes in American history.
Arthur Train was a Harvard-educated and well-respected attorney. He was also a best-selling author. Train’s greatest literary creation was...
Panic Fiction
Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Panic Fiction explores a unique body of antebellum American women’s writing that illuminates women’s relationships to the marketplace and the links between developing ideologies of domesticity and the formation of an American middle class.
Between the mid-1830s and the late 1850s, authors...
Beautiful War
Studies in a Dreadful Fascination
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
*A probing and holistic meditation on the key question: Why do we continue to make art, and thus beauty, out of war?
Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination* is a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant presence of war in our everyday...
The Style of Hawthorne's Gaze
Regarding Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The Style of Hawthorne’s Gaze is an unusual and insightful work that employs a combination of critical strategies drawn from art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and contemporary aesthetic and literary theory to explore Nathaniel Hawthorne’s narrative technique and his unique vision of the...
Recovering the Margins of American Religious History
The Legacy of David Edwin Harrell Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
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Recovering the Margins of American Religious History, a celebration of the life and work of David Edwin Harrell Jr., brings together essays from Harrell’s colleagues, peers, and students that explore his impact and legacy in the field of American...
Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33
Theatres of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradox—horrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.
War and...
Cherokee Women In Crisis
Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Explains how traditional Cherokee women's roles were destabilized, modified, recovered, and in some ways strengthened during three periods of great turmoil.
American Indian women have traditionally played vital roles in social hierarchies at the family, clan, and tribal levels. In the Cherokee...
by David G. Anderson, Gregory A. Waselkov, Stephen Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
This volume provides a comprehensive, broad-based overview, including first-person accounts, of the development and conduct of archaeology in the Southeast over the past three decades.
Histories of Southeastern Archaeology originated as a symposium at the 1999 Southeastern Archaeological Conference...
Fields of Vision
Essays on the Travels of William Bartram
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2009
A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south.
William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the ExtensiveTerritories...
A Forgotten Front
Florida during the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War.
In many respects Florida remains the forgotten state of the Confederacy. Journalist Horace Greeley once referred to Florida in the Civil War as the “smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of...
Blue Studios
Poetry and Its Cultural Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Feminist issues in avant garde poetry.
In her now-classic The Pink Guitar, Rachel Blau DuPlessis examined a number of modern and contemporary poets and artists to explore the possibility of finding a language that would question deeply held assumptions about gender. In the 12 essays...
Interruptions
The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A history of fragmentary—or interrupted—writing in avant-garde poetry and prose by a renowned literary critic.
In Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature, Gerald L. Bruns explores the effects of parataxis, or fragmentary writing as a device in modern literature. Bruns...
Another's Country
Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Cultural Interactions in the Southern Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
The 18th-century South was a true melting pot, bringing together colonists from England, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and other locations, in addition to African slaves—all of whom shared in the experiences of adapting to a new environment and interacting with American Indians. The shared...