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Interweaves the private story of a marriage coming apart with readings of John Milton's poetry and prose. Connected essays chart the chaos of loss and the discovery of how a writer can inhabit our emotional as well as our intellectual selves.

Demonstrates that structures of media undergird American regionalism through the representation of a given geography's peoples, places, and ideologies. THe book also outlines how the region answers back to the national media by circulating ever-shifting ideas of place via new platforms.

Presents a wide-ranging analysis of texts written by individuals who experienced the American Civil War. These voices have particular resonance today and underscore how rival memory traditions stir passion and controversy, providing essential testimony for anyone seeking to understand the US's greatest trial and its aftermath.

Explores Louisiana's protracted efforts to restore and protect its coastal marshes, nearly always with minimal regard for the people displaced by those efforts. As Craig Colten shows, the state's coastal restoration plan seeks to protect cities and industry but sacrifices the coastal dwellers who have occupied this perilous place for centuries.

While the poems in Winthropos reach back into the Hellenic past for imagery and inspiration, they often reside in the American present of their conception, forging childhood memory and local custom into a work of meditative power and evocative beauty.

In poems that confront a region indelibly shaped by environmental turmoil, economic erasure, and the weight of an outside world intent on destroying it, Daniel Boone's Window works to reclaim and reckon with the realities and complexities of Appalachia.

As he enters his sixth decade of publishing poetry, David Slavitt remains a determined wildcatter who ranges as far as he thinks necessary to drill for meaning. In his new collection, Slavitt traverses Africa, India, Israel, and the America in which he finds himself, as he searches for clues from which he might learn at least a little.

The final work of Anya Krugovoy Silver, a poet celebrated for her incisive writing about illness, motherhood, and Christian faith. The poems in this collection dance between opposite poles of joy and grief, community and isolation, humor and anger, belief and doubt, in moving and devastating witness to a life lived with strength and resolve.

Examines identity and nationalism in the post-Civil War South through the lens of commemorative activity, namely Independence Day celebrations and the Centennial of 1876. The often colourful and engaging discourse surrounding these observances provides a fascinating portrait of this fractured moment in the development of American nationalism.

Like politics, journalism has been turned topsy-turvy by the presidency of Donald Trump. In concise, illuminating, and often personal essays, the contributors to Covering Politics in the Age of Trump take a wide-ranging view of the relationship between the forty-fifth president and the Fourth Estate.

The innovative and dazzling short stories collected in Josh Russell's King of the Animals explore love and heartbreak, growing up and growing old, cities and suburbs, the fantastic and the everyday.

While most people are aware of the World War II internment of thousands of Japanese citizens and residents of the US, few know that Germans, Austrians, and Italians were also held in internment camps. Port of No Return tells the story of New Orleans's key role in this complex secret operation.

reveals previously unrecognized efforts by African Americans to use, manage, and exploit policing. In the process, Brandon Jett exposes a complex relationship, suggesting that while violence or the threat of violence shaped police and minority relations, it did not define all interactions.

Drawing from recent debates about the validity of regional studies and scepticism surrounding the efficacy of the concept of authenticity, Clare Chadd's Postregional Fictions focuses on questions of southern regional authenticity in fiction published by Barry Hannah from 1972 to 2001.

Explores the moral and ethical dilemmas that characters face inside themselves and in their interactions with others in the works of these two famed authors. Karl Zender's characterological study offers insightful, critically rigorous analyses of the complicated figures who inhabit several major Shakespeare plays and Faulkner novels.

David Johnson uses Spencer Roane's conflict with John Marshall as ballast for the first-ever biography of this highly influential but largely forgotten justice and political theorist. Because Roane's legal opinions gave way to those of Marshall, historians have tended to either dismiss him or cast him as little more than an annoying gadfly.

Martin Luther King Jr's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic. This volume offers a comprehensive history of King's "Letter" and examines its literary appeal.

Poet and novelist Ashley Mace Havird confronts global and personal change. Her subjects range from the extinction of a prehuman species to the present-day reduction in sea life due to the climate crisis. Closer to home, she confronts the death of her father and her own aging.

In Surprised by Sound, Roi Tartakovsky uncovers the mechanics of rhyme, revealing how and why it remains a vital part of poetry with connections to large questions about poetic freedom, cognitive and psychoanalytic theories, and the accidental aspects of language.

Examines how the French left perceived and used the image of the United States against the backdrop of major historical developments in both countries between the Revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871. Along the way, Tom Sancton weaves in the voices of scores of French observers.

Examines the challenges that resulted from US territorial expansion through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. In doing so, the book offers profound insights into the interplay of class, ethnicity, and race, as well as an understanding of colonialism, the nature of republics, democracy, and empire.

Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical discussions of the period still focus on books from prominent creators. This volume offers a more complicated and multivalent picture of this robust era of ambitious comics publishing.

Offers a celebration of the natural environment that also bemoans its mistreatment at the hands of humans. The collection's long sequence, "A Field Guide to People", is an alpha-bestiary of twenty-six sonnets, each a meditation on a species of flora or fauna that is thriving, endangered, or extinct.

Three days of savage and bloody fighting between Confederate and Union troops at Stones River in Middle Tennessee ended with nearly 25,000 casualties but no clear victor. Using previously neglected sources, Larry Daniel rescues this important campaign from obscurity.

Examines the political economy surrounding the use of enslaved labourers in Spanish imperial Cuba from 1762 to 1835. Evelyn Jennings demonstrates that the Spanish state's policies and practices in the ownership and employment of enslaved workers after 1762 served as a bridge from an economy based on imperial service to a plantation economy.

Analyses the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the US South, focusing specifically on how they made sense of the world around them through references to literary texts. Julia Nitz finds that many diarists incorporated allusions to poems, plays, and novels, especially works by Shakespeare and the British Romantic poets.

In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute.

Surveying the two centuries that preceded Jim Crow's demise, Race and Education in New Orleans traces the course of the city's education system from the colonial period to the start of school desegregation in 1960.

Analyses war movies for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape US national identity. The volume explores the extent to which the motion picture industry, particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the construction and evolution of American self-definition.

From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville hosted a diverse cast of characters who reflected the cultural milieu and complex social structure of turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed district by looking at prostitution through the lens of patriarchy.