Addressing a huge gap in the historiography of the antebellum United States, Edward Bartlett Rugemer explores the impact of... Læs mere
Challenges the idea that commercial and industrial interests did little to alter the planter-dominated... Læs mere
Joyce Carol Oates is America's most extraordinary and prolific woman of letters. Gavin Cologne-Brookes illuminates the vision of Oates, finding... Læs mere
Examines a wide array of African American novels written during the last half of the twentieth century, demonstrating that religious vision not only informs black literature but also serves as a foundation for black culture generally.
In James Brasfield's Ledger of Crossroads, layered by light and shadow, the crossroads emerge from distinct yet inseparable geographies. Grounded in the sensual world, the poems fuse American and Eastern European landscapes.
By way of the sacral, erotic, and creative imagination, the poems of Two Rooms use music and metaphor, syntax and diction to explore the conflicting claims of life and art, world and word, cultural heritage and cultural affinities.
These poems, inclusive of so many perspectives and voices, enter wide sweeps and strong currents of history, not to generalize or point a moral but rather to render moments in the lives of people caught in the effects of time's passing.
Sir William Berkeley (1605-1677) influenced colonial Virginia more than any other man of his era, diversifying Virginia's trade with... Læs mere
Examines nearly five hundred shipboard rebellions that occurred over the course of the entire slave trade, directly... Læs mere