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This volume explores the centrality of the theme of exile as a way of understanding Robert Penn Warren's artistry, demonstrating that the exile figure is both a key to Warren's relation to much of 20th-century southern literature as well as an index to his growth as an artist.

From age four to 18, Sue William Silverman was sexually abused by her father, a high-ranking government official. This is an often graphic memoir of those years which recounts how Silverman's mother ignored her distress, thus conspiring in an attempt to keep the situation unreported and undetected.

In the poem presented in this volume, the romance begins with the marriage of Cliges's parents and continues with the clandestine mutual love of their son and his uncle's bride, Fenice. Cliges and Fenice are finally united after executing a false-death plot aided by black-magic.

The text presents is a circa 1170 version of the Griselda legend which tells the story of the marriage of Erec, a courageous Welsh prince and knight of the Round Table, and Enide, an impoverished noblewoman. The translator's introduction includes discussion of the Arthurian legends in history.

A study of the effects of plantation society on literature and the influences of literature on social practices in 19th-century Georgia, this text examines works of fiction, travel accounts, diaries, and personal letters and shows how Georgian authors romanticized agrarian themes.

This collection of post card images presents the panorama of life in early 20th-century Georgia. Family outings, veteran's reunions and market days are some of the occasions depicted, many of the cards represent the only surviving visual record of schools, churches, businesses and public buildings.

This text aims to offer an insight into the lives of the Old South's free women of colour. The letters, from family members and friends, were written between 1844 and 1899 to Ann Battles Johnson, wife of Natchez businessman William T. Johnson, while her granddaughter, Catherine, wrote the diary.

The author's essays in this book describe elements of the natural world: wind, water, ice, fire, and trees. The ""unequal hours"" are of the changing seasons. Other essays explore a nature reserve, a garden, backyard wildlife, and a hot air balloon ride.

Welcome to McAfee County, home to a large gathering of characters whose stories are as intertwined as kudzu. Moving in and out of each other's lives in profound, often shocking, ways, the men and women in these stories form a vibrant community.

Clay Lewis crosses seven generations of his family to illuminate a heritage of romantic hope and abject defeat, seeking freedom through understanding. It is an exploration of how his family was changed by history - from the Civil War to the Great Depression.

A look at how World War II reshaped American popular culture. The author captures the aura of the times, chronicling the production histories of over a dozen projects with wartime themes, examining how books and plays became films, how stars were considered and selected, and the public reaction.

In a world increasingly dominated by human beings, the survival of other species becomes more and more questionable. This book offers an alternative to an ""us or them"" mentality, proposing that other species are integral to humanity's evolution and exist at the core of our imagination.

Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African-American experience. In her novels and stories, she taps the richness of rural southern black culture and oral traditions to capture conflicting realities and reveal grace and courage.

Aims to show readers that any conclusions about former American president Jimmy Carter's leadership and its adequacy to his challenges as president cannot ignore the moral quandary that vexed the American nation not only under Carter but ever since.

This is Burns' story of his escape from a Georgia chain gang in 1921, after being sentenced to six to ten years' hard labour for robbery. He lived as a free man for seven years before being recaptured and returned to the chain gang. Escaping again, he was a fugitive when his story was published.

In this work Lillian Smith, writer and civil rights crusader, recalls her fond memories of the Christmas season. She tells of the year-after-year rituals, sights, sounds, smells and tastes, and of such times as when her family hosted 48 chain-gang convicts and their guards to a holiday feast.

Looking closely at both the slaves' and masters' worlds in low, middle, and up-country South Carolina, this volume covers a wide range of economic and social topics related to the opportunities given to slaves to produce and trade their own food, once the master's assigned work was done.

In this collection of poems, Lee Upton extends upon and deepens her experiments with perception and language. They contain multiple figurations such as a Dante-inspired guide and a Da Vinci cartoon, Hamlet's Gertrude and Lewis Carroll's Alice.

Assessing the interplay between some of the East Hampton histories the author encountered, this work details the ""official"" stories of many generations, the myths and oral traditions, and the curious stories that Breen, as an outsider, discerned in the town's holdings of artifacts and documents.

More than 50 writers are profiled in this survey of the literature of the 1960s including Timothy Leary, Malcolm X, Helen Gurley Brown and Rachel Carson. The background of the youth movements are highlighted in the investigation in order to compare literacy in the USA in the 1990s.

These seven stories, set in the rural South and West, delve beneath the surface of ordinary lives, revealing their foibles and idiosyncracies. For example, an old deaf woman is kidnapped by a stranger whom she takes to the devil, and a money-grubbing man meets a woman no less hard than himself.

In this work, Hugh Kenner applies his attention to the alchemy of speech turning into language, language becoming art, and art finally settling down as culture. A variety of literary topics are addressed in 43 lively and often humorous essays, from St Augustine, through Tom Wolfe, to Nabokov.

A collection of ten essays which details the variety of ways that anthropological approaches and perspectives can be of practical worth in the resolution of conflicts.

This text offers a glimpse into the life and times of a 19th-century planter on one of Georgia's Sea Islands. Born poor, Robert Stafford became the leading planter on his native Cumberland Island and specialised in the highly valued long staple variety of cotton.

This work presents a mixture of anecdotes, memories, interviews and observations from a minister's son whose father performed missionary work in the deeply religious communities of the Bible Belt in America.

A history of Atlanta during and between the world wars. This volume draws on nearly 200 interviews with Atlanta residents who recall, in their own words, ""the way it was"" - from segregated streetcars to college fraternity parties, from moonshine peddling to visiting opera performances.

This is a study of American writing about foreign travel. Considering travel memoirs and journals, guidebooks and novels, this text applies recent forms of ideological and postcolonial criticism to a body of work published from 1810 to 1992.

These essays explore the relationship between environmental ethics and policy, both in theory and practice. The work focuses on approaches to change in ethical theory, the need to expand awareness of the most pressing practical problems and the need for non-traditional solutions.

This volume is a collection of essays, letters, diary entries and speeches. Including selections by African Americans, women and native Americans, the anthology aims to reflect the diversity of voices and experiences throughout the history of the state.