This elegantly written biography depicts the combined effect of social structure, character, and national crisis on a woman's life - Mary Greenhow Lee... Læs mere
Employs a comprehensive approach supported by provocative groundbreaking research to explain the... Læs mere
Researching the story of elite southern white women's successful quest for a measure of independence between antebellum strictures and the... Læs mere
In his gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 Overland campaign - which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War - Gordon Rhea vividly recreates the battles and manoeuvres from the North Anna stalemate through the Cold Harbor offensive.
In this book, Aldo P. Magi and Richard Walser have brought together twenty-five accounts of Thomas Wolfe talking to the press, ranging from his first interview, a... Læs mere
This close study of the first six novels of Toni Morrison situates her as an African American writer within the American literary... Læs mere
From the signing of the Constitution to the eve of the Civil War there persisted the belief that slaveholding southerners held the reins... Læs mere
The unfinished novel from which this collection of sketches, stories and novellas takes its title is credited as Wolfe's final effort. It tells the story of the Joyner family and conveys Wolfe's fine sense of family traits, rooted in a traceable past.
Based on research in documents and family correspondence as well as interviews with descendants of immigrants, this study by Lucy Cohen is... Læs mere
Examining his frequently overlooked successes, as well as his failures, Hargrove analyses both the content and the methods of... Læs mere
In this overview, a noted authority takes a perceptive look at the radical trends in modern drama and provides us with a new awareness of the forces and ideas behind the current theatrical battle.