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Pays tribute to the language and literature of the American South. Cleanth Brooks writes of the language's unique syntax and its celebrated languorous rhythms; of the classical allusions and Addisonian locutions once favoured by the gentry; and of the more earthbound eloquence that is still heard in the speech of the region's plain folk.

Malin Pereira's collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post-Black Arts Movement generation.

A collection of essays, which explore the terrain of childhood threatened by the lure of computers and television, by fear and the loss of play habitat, showing how kids thrive in their special places. It suggests ways kids both young and old can experience the wonder found only in the natural world.

Includes contributions by planners, architects, policymakers, and geographers from across the political spectrum who have weighed in on how best to respond to the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina.

A collection of twelve essays that focus on a number of provocative personal, professional, and literary ambiguities existing between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. It also covers topics such as professional competitiveness; Melville's search for a father figure; and, masculine ambivalence in the marketplace.

Offers a look at poetry, novels, speeches, sermons, and prayers by black women writers. This title discusses how such texts respond as a collective'literary witness' to the use of the Bible for purposes of social domination.

Hersey shows that in the hands of pioneers like Carver, Progressive Era agronomy was actually considerably "greener" than is often thought today. He uses Carver's life story to explore aspects of southern environmental history and to place this important scientist within the early conservation movement.

A study of how the local struggle for equality in Alabama fared in the wake of federal laws - the Civil Rights Act, the Economic Opportunity Act, and the Voting Rights Act. It looks at the interactions among local activists, elected officials, and bureaucrats who were involved in or affected by Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) projects.

Tullos explores the recent history of one of the nation's most conservative states to reveal its political imaginary-the public shape of power, popular imagery, and individual opportunity-and asks if the coming years will see a transformation of the "Heart of Dixie."

A comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial hegemony.

Challenges the definitions of southern fiction and regional identity while reconfiguring the myths of the West that have shaped American life. This book points toward a literary tradition and a regional and national mythology that blends place and space, settlement and movement, community and individualism, security and freedom.

Samuel Johnson (1709-84) is the most significant English writer of the second half of the eighteenth century; indeed, this period is widely known as the Age of Johnson. This is an early Johnson biography, recovered from obscurity and reissued in celebration of the tercentenary of Johnson's birth.

In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L. Ball explores the relationship between antislavery discourse and the emergence of the northern black middle class.

Looking across more than three centuries of want and prosperity, war and peace, this work introduces a cast of practitioners and proponents of the simple life, among them Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Jane Addams, Scott and Helen Nearing, and Jimmy Carter.

This history of relations between Ecuador and the United States is a revealing case study of how a small, determined country has exploited its marginal status when dealing with a global superpower. This book examines the misunderstandings, tensions, and - from the US perspective - often unintended consequences between the two countries.

Explores the contours of southern male identity from Reconstruction onwards. This book contains twelve case studies that document the changing definitions of southern masculine identity as understood in conjunction with identities based on race, gender, age, sexuality, and geography.

During the night of April 10, 1734, Montreal burned. Marie-Joseph Angelique, a 29-year-old slave, was arrested, and found guilty of starting the blaze that consumed 46 buildings. Suspecting that she had not acted alone, Angelique's condemners tortured her after the trial. This work tells the story of Marie-Joseph Angelique.

Resurrecting a forgotten chapter in transatlantic history, James G. Cusick tells how, just before the United States went to war against Great Britain in 1812, an ill-advised invasion of a Spanish colony became a stage on which the young republic clumsily acted out its imperial ambitions and racial fears.