Kent State University Press imprint: 593 books
A Family and Nation under Fire
The Civil War Letters and Journals of William and Joseph Medill
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
This collection of previously unpublished diaries and correspondence between Maj. William Medill and older brother Joseph, one of the influential owners of the Chicago Tribune, illuminates the Republican politics of the Civil War era. The brothers correct newspaper coverage of the war, disagree with...
War + Ink
New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Casts fresh light on the formative years of one of the twentieth century’s most important literary figures
Ernest Hemingway’s early adulthood (1917–1929) was marked by his work as a journalist, wartime service, marriage, conflicts with parents, expatriation, artistic struggle, and spectacular...
Classic Reds
The 50 Greatest Games in Cincinnati Red History
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2019
The 50 most historically significant games of baseball's first all-professional team
Choosing the 50 greatest games is hard to do; ranking them is even harder. Now every Reds fan can relive memories of baseball before and after the Big Red Machine, debate about these choices, or make a list...
The Way It Was
Sex, Surgery, Treasure, & Travel, 1907-1987
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
George (“Barney”) Crile considers himself a lucky man, lucky to be born when and where he was, lucky to have had the parents he did, lucky in his career, and most of all, lucky in his wives. Barney Crile’s parents were of Cleveland’s elite during that city’s self-described golden age. His...
The Passion of Meter
A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Passion of Meter is the first extended critical study of Wordsworth's metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. Until now, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between Wordsworth's attempt to incorporate into his poetry the language of "common...
by William Chrislock
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
An engaging tale of life as an immigrant in Cleveland during the post–Civil War era and early twentieth century
The Story of My Life, originally published in Czechoslovakia in 1928, is the engaging and informative autobiography of Frank Vlchek, a Czech immigrant who became a successful businessman...
by W. A. Senior
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant examines Donaldson's first three novels in an attempt to define their place in the fantasy canon. The book begins with an extensive introduction to the fantasy genre in which W.A. Senior eloquently defends fantasy against charges of being mere escapism,...
Translating Slavery, Volume 1
Gender and Race in French Abolitionist Writing, 1780-1830
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
A new, revised, and expanded edition of a translation studies classic
Translating Slavery explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and race by focusing on antislavery writing by or about French women in the French revolutionary period. Now in a two-volume...
Moods of the Ohio Moons
An Outdoorsman's Almanac
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
For almost thirty years, Merrill Gilfillan has written outdoor columns devoted primarily to describing and creating moods about the world of nature. These columns are informed by a rural background and field notes from more than sixty years of outdoor experience. In Gilfillan’s words, “Observation...
Arthur Machen and Montgomery Evans
Letters of a Literary Friendship, 1923-1947
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Arthur Machen (1863-1947), who achieved significant fame in the 1920s, was a general man of letters with echoes of Samuel Johnson, an important influence on later fantasy writers from H. P. Lovecraft to Ray Bradbury, and a great adventurer of the spirit. Montgomery Evans II, a wealthy book collector...
by Hannah Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified.
Cadence captures the poet’s point of view as a new mother, reveling...
Cosmographical Glasses
Geographic Discouse, Gender, and Elizabethan Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
A fresh perspective on Elizabethan fiction
In Cosmographical Glasses Constance Relihan examines the ways in which sixteenth-century English texts—traveler’s reports, ethnographic studies, and geographic guides—provide the foundation for how fictional prose of the period envisions the...
Creating People of Plenty
The United States and Japan's Economic Alternatives, 1950-1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
“There is no doubt that the Eisenhower administration accomplished one of its paramount Cold War strategic objectives: to rebuild Japan’s economy and reinstate the nation as a stabilizing, pro-capitalist member in the new world order that had come out of the morass of the Great Depression and...
Aftermath of War
Americans and the Remaking of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
With the fighting in World War II over in mid-August 1945, more than one-half million American troops moved to occupy Japan. Much of the country was ruined, buried under the rubble and debris of saturation bombing and the atomic blasts over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan’s rulers were stunned by...