Experimental texts empower the reader by encouraging self-governing approaches to reading and by placing the reader on equal footing with the author.Everybody's Autonomy is about reading and identity.
This manifesto is a verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another.This revolutionary work by artist-architects
This book collects reminiscences by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Stephen Crane that illuminate the life of this often misunderstood and misrepresented writer. Although Crane is widely r
An account of American missionary activity abetted by Mexican nationalists. L?zaro C?rdenas, president of Mexico 1934–40, is widely remembered as the most nationalistic and populist Mexi
When This Evil War Is Over is a collection of Civil War correspondence exchanged between members of the James Carrington Francis family of Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama. Six of the seven Fran
Should a museum be an institution for the projection and protection of official culture, or should it be an outcome of the demands of the popular marketplace? Harrison (English, Virginia Commonwealth
Whereas other studies have focused on George Wallace’s career as a national figure, Stand Up for Alabama provides a detailed, comprehensive, and analytical study of Wallace’s political li
It’s a New Day chronicles the rise of women and African American evangelists in the independent charismatic movement in post-World War II America. Billingsley observes current figures such as T. D. J
Alabama rivers and waterways are home to the largest and most diverse population of freshwater mussel species in the nation, roughly 60% of U.S. mussel fauna. The Mobile River Basin, which drains por
A belief in progress is a fundamental ethos in American history and culture. “The Assault on Progress” probes American literary works that challenge the prevailing notion of technology as a manifestat
Charlotte Perkins Gilman has reemerged as a major American literary figure, as evidenced by the republication of many of her stories and novels and an explosion of scholarship on her. This collection
For the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. The natural state of the
On the Cusp probes the works of two seminal figures in turn-of-the-20th century American arts and letters to tell a larger story: the complex birth of American modernism. The writer Stephen Crane (1
An exciting addition to the ongoing debate about the place of regionalism in American literary history. American regionalism has become a contested subject in literary studies alongside the ubiquitous
A collection of reminiscences illuminating the life of an elusive, ground–breaking American writer. In 1912, Sherwood Anderson suffered the mental and artistic break that has since become a
Katherine Anne Porter Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Porter offering a revealing and intimate portrait of the elusive and complex
This book includes catalog-style descriptive entries and illustrations of Wallace A. Rayfield's designs for six types of structures: residences, churches, schools, commercial buildings, fraternal buil
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of women were forced to seek their education outside the walls of American universities. Many turned to museums and libraries, for their own enlighte
Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: &ldquo
