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Delivers a dazzling analysis of the craft of this influential writer. Robert Paul Lamb scrutinizes a selection of Hemingway's exemplary stories to illuminate the author's methods of construction and to show how craft criticism complements and enhances cultural literary studies.

Offers a new interpretation of the Garrisonian abolitionists, stressing their deep ties to reformers and liberal thinkers in Great Britain and Europe. The group of American reformers known as "Garrisonians" included, at various times, some of the most significant and familiar figures in the history of the antebellum struggle over slavery.

With graceful lines swooping like a bird in flight, Claudia Emerson's newest collection explores the harsh realities of aging and the limitations of the human body, as well as the loneliness, fear, and anger that can accompany us as we live.

Tells the story of how, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Oberlin residents, black and white, understood and acted upon their changing perceptions of race, ultimately resulting in the imposition of a colour line.

The Civil War era marked the dawn of American wars of military occupation. In the Wake of War traces how volunteer and professional soldiers found themselves tasked with the unprecedented project of wartime and peacetime military occupation, initiating a national debate about the changing nature of American military practice.

Scholar Catherine Clinton reflects on the roles of women as historical actors within the field of Civil War studies and examines the ways in which historians have redefined female wartime participation.

Explores how southern writers of the 1930s and 1940s responded to Fascism, and most tellingly to the suggestion that the racial politics of Nazi Germany had a special, problematic relevance to the South and its segregated social system.

Explores the political, social, and economic place occupied by the coffee industry in contemporary Costa Rican history. Lowell Gudmundson explores the development of the co-op movement, the rise of the gourmet coffee market, and the transformations Costa Rica has undergone as a result of the coffee industry's powerful presence in the country.

The half century of European activity in the Caribbean that followed Columbus's first voyages brought enormous demographic, economic, and social change to the region. Ida Altman examines the interactions of diverse groups and individuals and the transformation of the islands of the Greater Antilles.

Weaves a compelling true crime narrative into an exploration of the economics of magazine fiction and the strains placed on authors by the publishing industry prior to World War II. Examining Gordon Malherbe Hillman's writing as exemplary of Depression-era popular fiction, Aiello includes eight stories written by him.

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.

The first book to examine the broad and imposing topic of poetic subject matter, probing both what poems are about and how that influences their content. The book comprises one poet's attempt to plumb the nature of his art, to ask how the selection of material remains a crucial yet unexplored area of poetic craft.

Examines the establishment of the dairy industry in the United States South during the 1920s. Alan Marcus suggests that the rise of the modern dairy business resulted from debates and redefinitions that occurred in both the northern industrial sector and southern towns.

Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist thought and creative work. In Communion of Radicals, Jonathan McGregor offers the first literary history of theologically conservative writers who embraced political radicalism.

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.

Investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas. The collection gathers scholarship that considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards.

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.

Explores American reactions to hostile world opinion, as voiced in the United Nations by representatives of the Global South from 1970 to 1984. Sean Byrnes suggests this challenge had a significant impact on US policy and politics, shaping the rise of the New Right and neoliberal visions of the world economy.

Examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers - Black and white, North and South. Invisible Wounds is a sweeping reevaluation of the mental damage inflicted by America's most tragic conflict.

In early 1840, abolitionists founded the Liberty Party as a political outlet for their antislavery beliefs. Reinhard Johnson provides the first comprehensive history of this short-lived but important third party, detailing how it helped to bring the antislavery movement to the forefront of American politics.

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.

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.

Examines pardon petitions from former Confederate soldiers and sympathizers in Tennessee to craft a unique and comprehensive analysis of the process of Reconstruction in the Volunteer State after the Civil War. These under utilized petitions contain a wealth of information about Tennesseans from an array of social and economic backgrounds.

Argues that the political ideology and racial views of American Protestants during the Civil War mirrored their religious optimism or pessimism regarding human nature, perfectibility, and the millennium.

Examines the impact of Louisiana's diverse cultural and ethnic groups on folklore characters and motifs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Establishing connections between Louisiana and France, West Africa, Canada, and the Antilles, Nathan Rabalais explores how folk characters, motifs, and morals adapted to new contexts in Louisiana.