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In Self-Interviews, James Dickey speaks thoughtfully and with candour of his life as a poet. He recalls how poetry came to be his career, tracing its growing importance in his life from... Læs mere
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James Dickey's creativity as a poet is well known. But there have been few opportunities for his readers to become familiar with the thoughts and perceptions that lie... Læs mere
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Tells of life in the hills of Appalachia some fifty years ago, a primal world of craggy hills and tangled forests where good and evil, charity and malice exist in their purest... Læs mere
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In this book, William C. Davis narrates one of the most memorable and crucial of the engagements fought for control of the strategically vital Shenandoah Valley - a battle that centred on the farming community of New Market.
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Probing the social repercussions of the industrial development of South Carolina in the decades following Reconstruction, David Carlton's Mill and Town in South... Læs mere
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In the informal, engaging essays brought together in One South, John Shelton Reed focuses on the South's strong regional identity and on the persistence, well into the last decades if the twentieth century, of Southern cultural distinctiveness.
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Shows how Robert Penn Warren's work, his fiction, poetry, literary criticism, historical and personal essays, journalism, is shaped largely by the circumstances not... Læs mere
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Examines various dimensions of abolitionism from its religious context to its international effect, from its attitude toward the northern poor to its impact on feminism, and from wars of words waged with southern intellectuals to the bloodier conflicts begun in Kansas.
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One was called “a tin can on a shingle”; the other, “a half-submerged crocodile.” Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the... Læs mere
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From the first passage in William C. Davis' book about “the twilight of America's innocence” to the last, the reader is carried through what many in the 1860s believed would be the only major conflict between North and South.
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Eric Anderson studies one of the most remarkable centres of black political influence in the late nineteenth century, North Carolina's... Læs mere