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Illustrated with one hundred five black and white photos, this work chronicles the International Grand Prize Race of the Automobile Club of America that was held in Savannah, Georgia, for the first time in November of 1908. Quattlebaum personally witnessed the big Fiats, Loziers, and Mercedes that roared around the turns in 1911.

This collection of essays grew out of a symposium commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of Georgia. The contributors are authorities in their respective fields who shed new light on the social, political, religious, and ethnic diversity of colonial Georgia.

An ambitious theoretical work that ranges from the age of Socrates to the late twentieth century, this book traces the development of the concepts of irony within the history of Western literary criticism. Will appeal to a broad spectrum of scholars concerned with the historical basis of critical language and its political implications.

Dauenhauer has collected eleven essays that explore the relationship between philosophy and history and encourage a balanced approach by demonstrating that a full understanding of the one is impossible without knowledge of the other.

Craige calls for the creation of a holistic system of learning that will emphasize interdisciplinary and nondisciplinary research, reconnecting literary studies with history and philosophy, with science and politics, restoring literature itself to a central place in our intellectual discourse and social debate.

Engaging in crucial debate, the contributors to Literature, Language, and Politics argue that the conservative educational agenda imperils not only scholarship and academic freedom but the very social well-being of the nation.

Essays in the fields of music, art criticism, literary criticism, philosophy, and the "history of consciousness" that confront the problems of relativist aesthetics. They range from theoretical discussions of the definition of art in our times to close examinations of particular artworks or art forms.

A thoughtful meditation on the connectedness of history and the possibilities of recovering and understanding the past, this book reveals as much about Corder's literary and historiographical preoccupations as it does about the life of his subject: a twenty-three-year-old lieutenant casualty of the American war with Mexico in 1846.

Yonder is about Corder's struggle for a footing against nostalgia's pull. In a kind of nonlinear, semi random sorting process reflected in the book's structure, Corder turns inward to refocus hazy memories and estimate and shoulder his responsibilities for the turns his life has taken.

St. Catherines: An Island In Time is the story of how a team of archaeologists found the lost sixteenth-century Spanish mission of Santa Catalina de Guale on the coastal Georgia island now known as St. Catherines.

The 1850s was a period of mass immigration of Europeans to America, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship. Honeck offers a fresh appraisal of these exiled democrats by probing their relationship to another group of beleaguered agitators: America's abolitionists.

Exploring the personifications of time by which Western civilization has ordered its attitudes toward both earthly existence and eternity, Patriarchs of Time traces the lineage of time's corporeal characterizations, from the deities of ancient Persia through modern consumer-culture icons.

Increasing demands for material goods have the potential for spreading wealth, but such demands strain the earth's limited resources. How we address the challenge posed by this depletion of resources, Macey suggests, will be the ultimate test of our rationalizing powers.

This is the diary of Brigadier General William Edward Brougher, who, after distinguishing himself as a combat leader in the unsuccessful defense of the Philippines, stoically endured confinement in Japanese prison camps in Luzon, Taiwan, Kyushu, and Manchuria from 1942 to 1945.

Ciuba examines how Percy's apocalyptic vision inspires the structure, themes, and strategies of his fiction. This book explores the unity of the southern novelist's fiction by focusing on its religious and artistic design-one of the first studies to approach Percy's work from this perspective.

Cogan identifies an ideal of femininity she calls the "Real Woman," who appeared in the popular reading of middle-class America from 1842 to 1880 and existed in advice books and manuals, as well as in magazine short stories as characters who were neither idle nor militant.

At once memoir and meditation, Keeping Time records one professional historian's struggle to live in history even as he studies it, writes about it, and teaches it. Exploring the omnipresence of the past in American life today, Carroll weaves into his autobiographical narrative a wealth of provocative observations on the practice of history.

Fourteen essays in which leading scholars discuss narrative texts and practices in a variety of media and genres, subjecting them to sustained cultural analysis. The essays cross national borders, historical periods and disciplinary boundaries, and they examine canonical fiction as well as postmodern media.

Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to constitute the dominant ideology of the period. The contributors' varied approaches allow for the reconsideration of libertinism, the politics of sexual desire, and other classic issues.

This interdisciplinary study proposes a comprehensive reevaluation of the links between Mill's experience and his writings, and it does so by examining such larger issues as the relation between gender and profession in Victorian culture and the nature of autobiographical writing.

Breaking the silence on a number of sacrosanct aspects of higher education-and raising the clamor about some highly politicized issues-Conspiring with Forms is a critique of both the academy and the discourse concerning its purposes and direction. Caesar combines theoretical sophistication with subjective depth and a measure of urbane wit.

Examining both Cane and the body of writings Toomer produced after it, Byrd finds a distinct thematic unity in the Toomer canon-a consistent, optimistic faith in human possibility and wholeness.

Byerman discusses how black writers such as Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, and Ernest Gaines have moved away from the ideological rigidity of the black arts movement that arose in the 1960s to create a more expressive, imaginative, and artistic fiction inspired by the example of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.

A a comprehensive reading of the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Byerman examines the connections between the personal and intellectual aspects of Du Bois's life to reveal the intense engagement with moral and ideological issues found even in texts that Du Bois represented as "objective.

Brings together selections from the major works of poetry and prose that have distinguished Burnshaw as one of the most important voices in twentieth-century letters. Included are essays from Burnshaw's two pioneering critical works: The Seamless Web and The Poem Itself.

Atwill maps the cultural contours of space-age America through readings of some of the era's most popular and influential narratives. Together, Atwill demonstrates, these key texts comprise a literary history of the space age, an exploration of the novel's possibilities in uncertain times, and a disturbing critique of postwar society.

Alkon offers first a study of time in Defoe's fiction that shows Defoe's relevance to issues now central to criticism of the novel; relationships between narrative time and clock time, the influence of time concepts shared by writers and their audience, and the questions of how fiction shapes the phenomenal time of reading.

Examines Carter's struggle to placate competing interests against the backdrop of difficult foreign and domestic issues: a struggling economy, the stalled Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, disputes in the Middle East, handover of the Panama Canal, and the Iranian hostage crisis.

Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C. Inscoe has crafted a series of essays exploring the southern experience as reflected in the life stories of those who lived it.