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These letters document Dickey's maturity into a poet, and follow his gradual establishment of self-identity and his struggle to determine subject matter and career. They are grouped by decade, with a critical introduction to each period, and reproduced without alterations.

James Schultz offers a pictorial study of a cultural movement that started in 1904 and spread across the United States. He provides an insight into the tent shows known as ""chautauquas"" that brought popular education and entertainment to the small towns of America for over 30 years.

This memoir of A.E. Hotchner's World War II experiences explores a different side of the war years. His excellent writing skills resulted in his working on propaganda films and writing plays. Here, he recounts meeting some unforgettable characters, such as Clark Gable, Alan Ladd and Dorothy Parker.

Based in the same locale as Mark Twain's tales of Tom Sawyer in Hannibal, Missouri, Ilasco was an industrial town created to serve the purposes of the Atlas Portland Cement Company. Andrews relates the story of the exploitation and the eventual destruction of the town.

Provides a politicized and historicized reading of William Golding's novels. Paul Crawford here argues that an understanding of fantastic and carnivalesque modes in Golding's work is vital if we are to appreciate fully his interrogation of 20th-century life.

The second of a two-volume history of the Jewish community of St Louis covering the St Louis Jewish population of the 20th century and continuing where volume one concluded.

Mark Twain's life is portrayed here in this mosaic of words and over 600 pictures. The words are Twain's own, taken from his writings - the autobiography, his letters, notebooks, newspaper reporting, sketches, travel pieces and fiction - and the illustrations provide a counterpoint to the text.

This volume brings to the forefront the suffering endured by Louisianians during and after the American Civil War - hardships more severe than those suffered by most of the Confederacy. The essays deal with the differing segments of Louisiana's society and their interactions with each other.

Part of ""The Collected Works of Langston Hughes"" series, this volume features his essays, from his radical pieces praising revolutionary socialist ideology in the 1930s to the more conservative, previously unpublished ""Black Writers in a Troubled World"".

This text is a comprehensive account of the life and work of Leslie Fiedler, the famous literary, cultural and political critic.

The 13 essays in this collection offer a nuanced picture of Samuel Clemens. As a whole they argue that we approach Clemens not as a shadow behind the literary persona but as a complex and intricate creator of stories, a creator who is deeply embedded in the political events of his time.

The story of McCord's fight for survival in Sante Fe, New Mexico, and also of his guerrilla warfare to help another small paper survive against Gannett's underhand tactics in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It seeks to show what happens when a ruthless wheeler-dealer gets control of the news.

Jesse B. Simple sprang to life in Langston Hughes's weekly ""Chicago Defender"" column in 1943. This is an examination of Hughes's ""Simple stories"". Through the conversations between Simple and his foil, Boyd, Hughes makes clear that both are alike - black men in a racially unbalanced society.

A collection of essays which have something to do with a genetic approach to literary study. In this work, Tom Quirk takes a stand against the direction taken by modern critical theory and sets forth his approach to literature. Authors discussed include Hawthorne, Melville, Twain and Faulkner.

A study of Luis de Gongora's ""Soledades"", the pastoral poems which have sparked controversy ever since they were first circulated at court in 1612-1614. It shows that the ""Soledades"" are in essence a court masque, an elaborate theatrical genre that combines a variety of cultural forms.

A literary biography of Pauline Avery Crawford, an American expatriate who wrote for the Paris edition of the ""New York Herald Tribune"" in the 1930s and 1940s. Interspersed in the biography are numerous quotations from Crawford's poems and letters, and an account of her life in Paris.

This work aims to meet the instructional needs of classrooms. It incorporates geography, civics, economics, anthropology, and sociology with history to give students a chance to learn about their world on several different levels.

Arguably one of 19th-century America's most ardent feminists, this work focuses on Margaret Fuller's development of a powerful language of cultural critique and myth-making in the years preceding her famous book ""Woman in the Nineteenth Century"".

This study explores the implications of Bernard Lonergan's approach to the philosophy of history in a number of distinct but related contexts, covering a variety of intellectual disciplines. The book offers a dialogue between Lonergan's critical realism and Voegelin's existential exegesis.

A memoir by the German writer Heinrich Hauser about his experiences while farming in southeast Missouri. It tells how they salvaged neglected fields and restored an old farmhouse. It also includes an account of Hauser's teenage son learning to farm and hunt.

This work investigates the lives and work of some of America's leading post-war historians. Each essay profiles a historian, most of whom have broken new ground or have met and surpassed new standards in their work. Their quality of work amd level of influence are examined.

This memoir narrates the military career of William S. Triplet. After serving in World War I, he became a tank commander and, along with his men, fought in the Baltic, preventing many German troops from joining in the defence of Berlin.

This volume examines the autobiographies of 19th-century African American women evangelists, along with their 18th-century forerunner Belinda. It studies how black women evangelists employed dialogue created by socioeconomic conditions.

Using recently declassified documents from Spain and the United States, personal interviews and unpublished and published Spanish, German, British and US records, this work seeks to make a significant contribution to the understanding of Hispano-German relations during the 1930s and 1940s.

This biography of Edward Thompson - novelist, journalist, historian of India and friend of Nehru and Gandhi - tells the story of this liberal advocate for Indian culture. His first visits to India as a Methodist missionary are recorded, as are his years spent teaching in Oxford.

A History of Missouri, 1820 to 1860 covers the years of Missouri's adolescence - from statehood to the outset of the Civil War.

This volume includes essays by Russian scholars who have examined the history of American political parties and the role they played in American history. The dialogue is then developed through commentaries by American historians and through counter-responses by the Russian authors.