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Assessing of the state of the study of myth, this text explores the possibilities for charting a methodological middle course that takes into account both the comparative and the contextual issues raised since 1985.

This collection of essays aims to respond to Charles Sellers's ""The Market Revolution"", reflecting upon the historiographic accomplishments initiated by his work, while advancing the argument across a range of fields. It explores the impact of the market on social and economic institutions.

A fictionalised autobiography that provides an account of Evelyn Scott's liaison with a married Tulane University dean, and their subsequent flight to Brazil.

This collection of essays show that periodical works emerged from the juncture where high-brow intermingled with low-brow, where commerce blended with artistry in 19th-century America. The authors examine a variety of periodicals from ""Atlantic Monthly"" to ""The National Era"".

In 1957 and 1958, William Faulkner was Writer-in-Residence at University of Virginia. This volume includes what he said at 37 conferences where he answered over 2000 questions on a wide range of concerns, from exegetic problems in his novels to the role of the writer in modern society.

This text is both a biography of Ethan Allen and a social history of the conflict between agrarian commoners and their wealthy adversaries.

This autobiography depicts the spiritual landscape against which Ellen Glasgow's novels were written. The introduction examines her composition of "The Woman Within", surveys critical responses since its publication, examines unpublished portions and discusses the implications of the text.

A comprehensive study of Civil War Afro-Virginian history. Every aspect of black life is examined: slave and free; rural and urban; homefront and battlefield; at work on plantations and in munitions factories; and as wartime Union spies and Confederate soldiers.

Using a combination of archaeology, anthropology and ethnohistory, this book traces the rise of one Indian group, the Chicacoans. By presenting a case study of the Chicacoans from AD 200 to the early 17th century, Potter offers readers a window onto the development of Algonquian culture.

Brings together contributors to examine the responses of various segments of American and European society to the Harpers Ferry Raid and John Brown's execution. The incidents were widely publicised, and their meanings were hotly debated. The debates contributed to Northern antipathy to slavery.

In this work, first published in 1961, Hoffman combines the disciplines of folklore and literary criticism in his readings of works by Irving, Hawthorne, Melville and Twain. In a new preface, he describes the evolution of his critical method and suggests the book's value for contemporary readers.

This is a study of school desegregation in Virginia. It traces the evolution of the Richmond public schools from segregation to desegregation to resegregation in the decades following the ""Brown"" decision. It analyses the ""separate but equal"" system and its impact on life in the city.

Since the 1950s, David Apter and Carl Rosberg have been among the leading American scholars in African studies. In this volume they, along with other specialists in the field, explore the new configurations of African politics.

Celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson by offering the contemporary views of a number of historians on the third president and the architect of democracy. Jefferson's career, his testimony on slavery, his significance for civil rights, and more are assessed.

An English translation of F.W.J. Schelling's ""System of Transcendental Idealism"", probably his most important philosophical work. A central text in the history of German idealism, its original German publication was in 1800. It contains his philosophy of art and influenced Coleridge's work.

Ordinarily Sacred aims to illuminate the sacred quality of experience that on the surface appears mundane or secular. Through stories, metaphors, and images, the author claims, we discover the religious or the sacred in the activities of ordinary life - dreams, play and memory.

Deploying his extensive research into the written, oral and material sources of Afro-American culture as well as on his scholarly knowledge of folklife, social history, anthropology and art history, the author presents the evidence of African influence on Black American folklife.

This work on the religious thought of Thomas Jefferson grew out of a study of Jefferson's reading interests, particularly in religious and ethical subjects as reflected in his library holdings and literary comments.

A psychological and intellectual portrait of Landon Carter, the wealthy 18th century diarist and master of Sabine Hall, this study attempts to delineate his central character traits and personal values, while also placing him in the context of the social imperatives of the Virginia gentry of his day.

A collection of ten essays by 12 scholars on the American Civil War. They debate issues surrounding the centrality of slavery to disunion, the nature of master-slave relations in the Old South, and the impact of the war on postbellum race relations, politics and culture.

Since the 18th century, artists have played a conflicting role in society. Part of the reason for this, argues this analysis, is the survival of the culture of idolatry in the modern age. They can either paint scenes of worship of the golden calf or they can fabricate the idol themselves.

The South African revolution of the 1990s was predicated on the energy of a youthful black population; one that has been increasingly at odds with its elders since the onset of industrialization in the late-19th-century. This book traces the origins and history of this conflict.

So central was labour in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work that slaves did. Cultivation and Culture explores when, where, and how slaves laboured in growing the New World's great staples and how this work shaped the institution of slavery and the lives of African-American slaves.

Brings together some of the most highly regarded historians and literary critics of the American South to consider race, gender and texts through three centuries and from different vantage points.