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Few historians have investigated the experiences of individual American states during the tumultuous World War II years. In his study of Louisiana's home front from 1939 to 1945, Jerry Purvis Sanson examines changes in politics, education, agriculture, industry, and society that forever altered the Pelican State.

What remained of the decomposed body of twelve-year-old Tina Marie Andrews was discovered in the woods outside of McComb, Mississippi, on August 23, 1969. Trent Brown's Murder in McComb is the first comprehensive examination of the case, the lengthy investigation into it, and the two extended trials that followed.

Building on the comedic hijinks of Penelope Lemon: Game On!, Operation Dimwit is a warmhearted look at the challenges of being a single working mom trying to stay afloat in the middle class after a divorce.

In lush verse pointed by Cajun language, these poems measure the good that can result from destructive situations, encompassing ecological devastation, maternal deprivation, spiritual poverty, and mania.

Argues that the writing of Percival Everett compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Everett's fiction challenges its interpreters to question their assumptions, consider the spaces in between categories, and embrace the potential of a larger, more uncertain world.

George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists. His approach to reform was shaped by a conservative Protestant outlook that became increasingly hostile to Catholicism. Ryan McIlhenny examines the interplay of Bourne's pioneering efforts in abolitionism and his intensely anti-Catholic views.

Explores the roles women played in civil rights activism in Louisiana from the 1920s through the 1960s. As Shannon Frystak shows, the civil rights movement allowed women to step out of their prescribed roles as wives, mothers, and daughters and become actors - even leaders - in a social structure largely dominated by men.

Robert Penn Warren, Randall Jarrell, and Robert Lowell maintained lifelong friendships with one another, often discussing each other's work in private correspondence and published reviews. This book traces the artistic and personal connections between the three writers, uncovering the significance of their parallel literary development.

Portrays in words and stunning photographs the manmade structures that cross America's most important and, during the mid-nineteenth century, most daunting natural waterway. The book features seventy-five of the river's more than 130 spans, progressing from south to north, in rural, small-town, and metropolitan settings.

Gathers one hundred poems by Henry Taylor, drawing on over fifty years of published work by this witty, adept, and vital literary voice. The book opens with twenty-five recent poems collected for the first time. The remaining seventy-five poems appear from his previous books.

A panoramic collection of essays written by both established and emerging scholars, American Discord examines critical aspects of the Civil War era, including rhetoric and nationalism, politics and violence, gender, race, and religion.

Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climactic months of the Civil War in Virginia, and the first encounter between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. In an exciting narrative, Gordon C. Rhea provides the consummate recounting of the conflict.

Laura Davenport confronts the vexing possibilities of human intimacy, confessing, "The question is what keeps me coming back." The crisp narrative style and confiding voice of these poems invite readers to consider the ways in which unspoken expectations shape identities and relationships.

Andrew Jackson Higgins is perhaps the most forgotten hero of the Allied victory. He designed the LCVP (landing craft vehicle, personnel) that played such a vital role in the invasion of Normandy. Jerry Strahan's biography of Higgins reveals a colourful, controversial character, who was an outsider to New Orleans' elite social circles.

In Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth, George S. Lensing examines Stevens' gradual emergence and development as a poet, tracing his life from his formative years in Pennsylvania to his careers as a lawyer for the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and as one of the major poets of the twentieth century. Lensing draws extensively upon previously unpublished material from the Stevens archive at the Huntington Library, which contains letters, early drafts of poems, and notebooks. Two notebooks, Schemata and From Pieces of Paper, are here reproduced in full. The study is divided into three sections. In the first, Lensing examines the years before the publication of Sevens' first volume of poetry, paying special attention to the forces that hindered and enhanced his progress toward modernity. In the second, we see Stevens in the exercise of his craft. Lensing discusses the influence of the Romantics on the verse Stevens wrote as an undergraduate at Harvard; his interest in Oriental art, Cubism, and Fauvism; his anticipation of Imagism; and his imitation of certain French Symbolists. Sources of the epigraphs to Stevens' poems are identified fully for the first time, suggesting the role of Stevens' vast reading upon his poetry. Also considered is Stevens' voluminous correspondence with people from all over the world, some of whom he never met personally. These letters helped rescue Stevens from the insularity of his business life and aided in the making of his poems. The final section treats the critical responses to Stevens' poetry by such people as Harriet Monroe, editor and founder of Poetry, who was the first important reader and publisher of his work. Attention is also given to Stevens' explications of his poems. Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth is a comprehensive examination of Stevens' live and work. This study provides abundant new material, which will be of value to scholars and to those readers who are drawn to Stevens' poetry.

Examines slavery in the antebellum South's newest state and reveals how significant slavery was to the history of Texas. The "peculiar institution" was perhaps the most important factor in determining the economic development and ideological orientation of the state in the years leading to the Civil War.

Molly the pony waits. She waits in her stall. She waits during the storm. She waits for her owner to return.So begins the true story of a patient pony who is rescued from a south Louisiana barn after Hurricane Katrina and finds a new life on a farm with new animal friends.

Most of the Civil War was fought on Southern soil. The responsibility for defending the Confederacy rested with two great military forces. One of these armies defended the "heartland" of the Confederacy - a vital area which embraced Tennessee and portions of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Kentucky. This is the story of that army.

The compelling memoir of a single white mother searching to understand why her adopted biracial son grew from a happy child into a troubled young adult who struggled with addiction for decades. The answers, E. Kay Trimberger finds, lie in both nature and nurture.

Focusing on the philosophical registers of literary texts, Adam Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes toward subjectivity, particularly in relation to issues of ideology, spatiality, and violence. His analysis explores a selection of works published between 1904 and 1941.

Jane Austen has resonated with readers across generations like no other writer. More than two hundred years after the publication of Pride and Prejudice, people continue to honour "dear Jane". In Performing Jane, Sarah Glosson explores this vibrant fandom, examining a long history of Austen fans engaging with her work.

Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the US South.

One of the South's most revered writers, Ernest J. Gaines attracts both popular and academic audiences. In this welcome guide to Gaines's fiction, Keith Clark offers insightful analyses of his novels and short stories.

A master craftsman who seamlessly combines vision and contemplation, Brendan Galvin is considered among the most powerful naturalist poets today. Habitat, Galvin's fourteenth poetry book, combines eighteen new works with lyric pieces from the past forty years.

The word Creole evokes a richness rivaled only by the term's widespread misunderstanding. Now both aspects of this unique people and culture are given thorough, illuminating scrutiny in Creole, a comprehensive, multidisciplinary history of Louisiana's Creole population.

If religious poetry may be thought of as a great river fed, in the English language, by two main streams, the devotional tradition, leading in recent times to Anne Sexton and John Berryman, and the contrastingly philosophical tradition, exemplified by William Blake, it is to the latter that this new book by Kelly Cherry belongs.

The poems in this collection have to do with memory and metaphor, two forces that enable us to interpret our experience. Each is in a sense a second language, and in Lisel Mueller's employ each gains expression in an imaginative and humanistic voice.

"Halleck originates nothing, anticipates nothing, to assist others; takes no responsibility, plans nothing, suggests nothing, is good for nothing." Gideon Welles's harsh words embody the stereotype of Union General-in-Chief Henry Wager Originally published in 1962, this book challenges the standard interpretation of this controversial figure.

After more than two decades, Origins of the New South is still recognised both as a classic in regional historiography and as the most perceptive account yet written on the period which spawned the New South.