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Ciuba examines how Percy's apocalyptic vision inspires the structure, themes, and strategies of his fiction. This book explores the unity of the southern novelist's fiction by focusing on its religious and artistic design-one of the first studies to approach Percy's work from this perspective.

Cogan identifies an ideal of femininity she calls the "Real Woman," who appeared in the popular reading of middle-class America from 1842 to 1880 and existed in advice books and manuals, as well as in magazine short stories as characters who were neither idle nor militant.

At once memoir and meditation, Keeping Time records one professional historian's struggle to live in history even as he studies it, writes about it, and teaches it. Exploring the omnipresence of the past in American life today, Carroll weaves into his autobiographical narrative a wealth of provocative observations on the practice of history.

Fourteen essays in which leading scholars discuss narrative texts and practices in a variety of media and genres, subjecting them to sustained cultural analysis. The essays cross national borders, historical periods and disciplinary boundaries, and they examine canonical fiction as well as postmodern media.

Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to constitute the dominant ideology of the period. The contributors' varied approaches allow for the reconsideration of libertinism, the politics of sexual desire, and other classic issues.

This interdisciplinary study proposes a comprehensive reevaluation of the links between Mill's experience and his writings, and it does so by examining such larger issues as the relation between gender and profession in Victorian culture and the nature of autobiographical writing.

Breaking the silence on a number of sacrosanct aspects of higher education-and raising the clamor about some highly politicized issues-Conspiring with Forms is a critique of both the academy and the discourse concerning its purposes and direction. Caesar combines theoretical sophistication with subjective depth and a measure of urbane wit.

Examining both Cane and the body of writings Toomer produced after it, Byrd finds a distinct thematic unity in the Toomer canon-a consistent, optimistic faith in human possibility and wholeness.

Byerman discusses how black writers such as Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, and Ernest Gaines have moved away from the ideological rigidity of the black arts movement that arose in the 1960s to create a more expressive, imaginative, and artistic fiction inspired by the example of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.

A a comprehensive reading of the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Byerman examines the connections between the personal and intellectual aspects of Du Bois's life to reveal the intense engagement with moral and ideological issues found even in texts that Du Bois represented as "objective.

Brings together selections from the major works of poetry and prose that have distinguished Burnshaw as one of the most important voices in twentieth-century letters. Included are essays from Burnshaw's two pioneering critical works: The Seamless Web and The Poem Itself.

Atwill maps the cultural contours of space-age America through readings of some of the era's most popular and influential narratives. Together, Atwill demonstrates, these key texts comprise a literary history of the space age, an exploration of the novel's possibilities in uncertain times, and a disturbing critique of postwar society.

Alkon offers first a study of time in Defoe's fiction that shows Defoe's relevance to issues now central to criticism of the novel; relationships between narrative time and clock time, the influence of time concepts shared by writers and their audience, and the questions of how fiction shapes the phenomenal time of reading.

Examines Carter's struggle to placate competing interests against the backdrop of difficult foreign and domestic issues: a struggling economy, the stalled Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, disputes in the Middle East, handover of the Panama Canal, and the Iranian hostage crisis.

Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C. Inscoe has crafted a series of essays exploring the southern experience as reflected in the life stories of those who lived it.

Traces the reaction of activists, artists, writers, and local residents to the brutal lynching of a pregnant woman near Valdosta, Georgia, in 1918. Turner's story became a centerpiece of the Anti-Lynching Crusaders campaign for the 1922 Dyer Bill, which sought to make lynching a federal crime.

Of all the issues in international relations, disputes over territory are the most salient and most likely to lead to armed conflict. Understanding their endurance is of paramount importance. Although many states have settled their disagreements over territory, seventy-one disputes involving nearly 40 percent of all sovereign states remain unresolved.In this study, Krista E. Wiegand examines why some states are willing and able to settle territorial disputes while others are not. She argues that states may purposely maintain disputes over territory in order to use them as bargaining leverage in negotiations over other important unresolved issues. This dual strategy of issue linkage and coercive diplomacy allows the challenger state to benefit from its territorial claim. Under such conditions, it has strong incentive to pursue diplomatic and militarized threats and very little incentive to settle the dispute over territory.Wiegand tests her theory in four case studies, three representing the major types of territorial disputes: uninhabited islands and territorial waters, as seen in tensions between China and Japan over the Senkaku and Diaoyu Islands; inhabited tracts of territory, such as the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla affecting Morocco and Spain; and border areas, like the Shebaa Farms dispute between Lebanon and Israel. A fourth case study of a dispute between China and Russia represents a combination of all three types; settled in 2008, it serves as a negative example. All these disputes involve areas that have key strategic and economic importance both regionally and globally.

Charged with the mystery of childhood, with curiosity and daring, confusion and fear, the eleven interrelated stories in Useful Gifts explore what Ruthie knows. The youngest child of profoundly deaf parents living in Manhattan in the 1940s and 1950s, Ruthie Zimmer speaks and signs. Interpreting for her parents, she tries to make sense of worlds as close as her familys fourth-floor apartment, as expansive as her rooftop playground and as diverse as the neighborhood below.The ways of language, its ways, its habits, its humoras well as the demons that rise within us when we fail to communicateform an undercurrent in many of Carole Glickfelds stories. In What My Mother Knows Hannah Zimmer gleans the neighborhood gossip from her apartment window, telling Ruthie in a gesture that Mrs. Frangione is pregnant again, and announcing in clipped, terse signs that the OBriens have divorced. Know drunk?Unhappy, fight, wife, divorce. There is, in My Fathers Darling the hoarse, choked screaming of Albert Zimmer, Honorfatherhonorfatherhonorfather striking his daughter Melva has she sinks to the floor muttering Misermisermisermiser in the distant, disembodied voice of a ventriloquist. And, in Talking Mama-Loshn there is Sidney, Ruthies older brother, getting down to business, sprinkling his speech with Yiddish, French and Germanwords that project a wisdom and cosmopolitanism he clearly craves.Three floors below the Zimmer apartment, Ruthie enters the altogether different realm of Dot, a thrice-married hatcheck girl, and her daughter and son, Glory and Roy Rogers. These are characters who, as their names seem to promise, bring adventure and excitementfrom acted-out fantasies of Hollywood to gunfights amid the rooftop battlements of Fort Arden, from impulsive, stylish haircuts to Chinese food with pork. And, across the stoop, Ruthie visits with the Opals familyIris, Ivy, and Ionethree daughters whose endless lessons in charm, elocution and posture prime them for future fame and glory.In Useful Gifts, Carole Glickfeld creates, through the optimistic voice of a young girl, intimacy with the complexity and heartbreak of a world we hope she can survive. In the closing story of the collection, Ruth Zimmer, twenty years older, retraces her neighborhoodnot only to preserve her memories but to understand, finally, their effect on her now, a grown woman living three thousand miles away.

Focuses on the growth of periodical literature from 1850 to 1910 to illustrate how Victorian and Edwardian culture problematized fatherhood within the family. Drawing on political, scientific, domestic, and religious periodicals, Nelson shows how positive portrayals of fatherhood virtually disappeared as motherhood claimed an exalted position.

The nine stories of CAUTION Men in Trees capture the pressure, need, and frequent helplessness of people confronted with intractable reality. Though settings and situations vary, the same sense of overwhelming urgency recurs throughout the collection.

Susan Neville combines a gift for language with a subtle eye and a fine instinct for character. Her characters - and her settings - are, most of them, midwestern. All of the stories in this unusual first collection stick in the reader's mind long after they have been read.

Written during an important transition in the history of American children's literature, these three novels are of special interest to scholars of American Romanticism. Perhaps most important of all, they have not lost their attraction for young readers.

Analyzing the historical contexts in which female Gothic novels and slave narratives were composed, Kari J. Winter shows that both types of writing expose the sexual politics at the heart of patriarchal culture and represent terrifying aspects of life for women.

Using the works and careers of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, David Graham Phillips, and Lincoln Steffens as case studies, Christopher P. Wilson measures the advantages and costs of the new professional literary role and captures the drama of this transformative epoch in American journalism and letters.

Wilson explores how these white collar representations became part and parcel of a new social class coming to terms with its own power, authority, and contradictions by investigating the material experience and social vocabularies within white collar life itself.

Based on a wide range of sources, including NYA-related documents at the National Archives and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, this is the first full-length study of this important agency. By showing how the NYA served as an instrument for realizing New Deal ambitions, it offers rich insights into not only the NYA but the New Deal as well.

The eleven contributors to The Girl's Own explore British and American Victorian representations of the adolescent girl by drawing on such contemporary sources as conduct books, housekeeping manuals, periodicals, biographies, photographs, paintings, and educational treatises.

In the role of "historian-detective" Bernard Mayo presents in lecture form three case histories in hero-worship. These abundantly illustrate the uses and abuses of history, revealing how the flesh-and-blood men, humanly fallible yet with the inspiring qualities of greatness, have been distorted and obscured by conflicting interpretations and by myths that defame and myths that glorify.

The first critical study of one of the most important women writers of the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Montagu (1689-1762), who produced a body of erudite and entertaining correspondence that spanned more than fifty years. Her letters illuminate the difficulties she encountered in an era of significant cultural change.