In this compelling new study, Carol Harrison and Thomas Brown chart the rise and fall of the Zouave military uniform, the nineteenth century’s most important fashion fad for men and women on both sides of the Atlantic.
Analyses more than a dozen pieces of Ernest Hemingway’s celebrated short fiction, with a focus on manuscripts and typescripts, as part of a broader examination of how Hemingway crafted his distinctive prose through a rigorous process of revision.
Explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of authors included... Læs mere
With a focus on media forms through which southern identity gets articulated and questioned - including horror movies, Swamp Thing comics, and... Læs mere
Born in a provincial city in the Peruvian Andes, the Franciscan linguist and theologian Luis Geronimo de... Læs mere
Drawn from more than twenty years of literary criticism, this collection of Jay Rogoff’s essays explore how the staying power of a poet’s work and the likelihood of it enjoying a lasting identification with its creator depend on the skilled manipulation of poetic technique.
Examines the means through which people of African descent embodied tenets of respectability as a coping strategy to navigate enslavement and racial oppression in the early Black Atlantic world.
Collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century.... Læs mere
Explores the diversity of public opinion on the Vietnam War within the American South. Joseph Fry examines... Læs mere
Argues that, in response to the scientific and cultural changes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many American thinkers came to... Læs mere
Examines early American texts published between 1767 and 1867 whose narratives represent women’s engagement in the... Læs mere
Uses the waterfront squatter settlements and Black entertainment district near the levee in St. Louis as a window into the world of the... Læs mere