In the 1930s African Americans faced three distinct historical crises that impacted the lives of African Americans directly—the Great Depression, the existential-identity crisis, and the Italo-Ethiopi
Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820–1945,edited by Timothy R. Buckner and Peter Caster, brings together scholars of history and literatu
A set of lectures celebrating Ohio's bicentenary takes an engaging look at the state's past successes, such as creating the modern oil industry and participating in international reform movements, and
English scholars from Britain, Canada, the US, and Australia explore methods for determining the difference between original 14th-century texts and interpretations or revisions of them, the changes be
This collection of primary source documents traces the evolution of Ohio's Western Reserve from the early days of exploration to the eve of the Civil War. The documents, which come from the archives o
Since the turn of the century, the opportunity to design a city nestled in a subtropical garden has attracted the nation's preeminent planners to St. Petersburg. The most ambitious plan was developed
The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the prostitute in Latin American literature, Claire Thora Solomon’s book The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Litera
In The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel, Russell Scott Valentino offers pioneering new insights into the historical constructi
Hawthorne's second collection of stories and sketches, including such classics as Young Goodman Brown and Rappaccini's Daughter, is presented with historical, textual, and bibliographical commentaries
Fatwas and Court Judgments: A Genre Analysis of Arabic Legal Opinion uses a genre analysis approach to investigate how Arabic legal opinion is linguistically and rhetorically constructed in two cultur
Set in 17th-century Puritan New England, this story of illicit passion, guilt and punishment revolves around the beautiful and mysterious Hester Prynne. She is condemned to wear a scarlet letter as a
In this, David Citino's eighth full-length collection, a poet approaches the end of the twentieth century takes stock of a single life: of its family and culture, history, and beliefs; of the contempo
New edition of a guide to the terminology and history of feminist theory. Succinct definitions of a wide range of terms and topics are presented, including accounts of key issues relating to the famil
In Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Jill Galvan and Elsie Michie bring together top Victorian scholars to scrutinize nineteenth-century marriage in incisive ways. The volu
Explores the connections between American urban history and historic preservation. Hamer (history, Victoria U. of Wellington, New Zealand) argues that four stages of history are represented by histor
Addressed to both classicists and students of modern culture, Odyssean Identities in Modern Cultures: The Journey Home traces theOdyssey’s central theme of homecoming in a wide range of narratives fro
Edited by Eileen Gillooly and Deirdre David, Contemporary Dickens is a collection of essays that presents some of the most intriguing work being undertaken in Dickens studies today. Through an em
In her analysis of Morrison's five novels - Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Sula, and Tar Baby - Rigney defines a black feminine/feminist aesthetic. The many "voices" of Toni Morrison, Rigne
In Quakertown, Lee Martin travels back in time to 1920s Texas to tell the story of a flourishing black community that was segregated from its white brethren—and of the remarkable garde
Interspersed among the wide assortment of month-by-month recipes (the vodka penne is outstanding), are poems, memories, and thoughts to ponder while waiting for the water to boil. Young, author of eig
