Lsu Press imprint: 854 books
by Sarah Gleeson-White, Richard Godden, Robert Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
William Faulkner in the Media Ecology explores the Nobel Prize-winning author immersed in the new media of his time. Intersecting with twentieth-century technology such as photography, film, and sound recording, these twelve essays portray Faulkner as not only as a writer looking back on the history...
The 'Baby Dolls'
Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
One of the first women's organizations to mask and perform during Mardi Gras, the Million Dollar Baby Dolls redefined the New Orleans carnival tradition. Tracing their origins from Storyville-era brothels and dance halls to their re-emergence in post-Katrina New Orleans, author Kim Marie Vaz uncovers...
Carnival in Louisiana
Celebrating Mardi Gras from the French Quarter to the Red River
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
From the revelers on horseback in Eunice and Mamou to the miles-long New Orleans parade routes lined with eager spectators shouting “Throw me something, mister!,” no other Louisiana tradition celebrates the Pelican State’s cultural heritage quite like Mardi Gras. In Carnival in Louisiana, Brian...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
"A sweeping yet rigorous analysis of Dixon and his work. The collection approaches the southern intellectual through multiple methodologies -- from literary theory and film studies to social history and religious studies. We get an exhaustive yet diverse perspective on Dixon's influence and legacy."...
Hearing Sappho in New Orleans
The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
While sifting through trash in her flooded New Orleans home, Ruth Salvaggio discovered an old volume of Sappho's poetry stained with muck and mold. In her efforts to restore the book, Salvaggio realized that the process reflected how Sappho's own words were unearthed from the refuse of the ancient...
New Orleans Women and the Poydras Home
More Durable than Marble
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
A two-hundred-year-old institution, the Poydras Home -- originally the Poydras Asylum -- stands as an exemplar of woman-led charitable organizations. In a thorough and engaging narrative, Pamela Tyler offers the first complete history of this remarkable New Orleans establishment from its founding...
Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women
Illegal Sex in Antebellum New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book Award
When a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colony's moral tone, the governor responded, "If I send away all the loose females, there will be no women left here...
by Taylor Hagood
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
From the emerging field of disability studies, Taylor Hagood offers the first book-length consideration of impairment in William Faulkner's life and writing. Blending biography, textual analysis, and theory in an experimental style, Hagood explores in both form and content the constructs of normality...
by Tara Powell
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Never in its long history has the South provided an entirely comfortable home for the intellectual. In this thought-provoking contribution to the field of southern studies, Tara Powell considers the evolving ways that major post--World War II southern writers have portrayed intellectuals -- from Flannery...
The Short Story in Midcentury America
Countercultural Form in the Work of Bowles, McCarthy, Welty, and Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The Short Story in Midcentury America provides in-depth case studies of four major writers of the post–World War II era—Paul Bowles, Mary McCarthy, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams—examining how they used the contained aesthetics of short fiction to map out an oppositional stance to the...
by David H. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
In William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition, David H. Evans pairs the writings of America's most intellectually challenging modern novelist, William Faulkner, and the ideas of America's most revolutionary modern philosopher, William James. Though Faulkner was dubbed an...
by Annette Cox, James Hall, Fritz Hamer
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2018
Edited by Matthew L. Downs and M. Ryan Floyd, The American South and the Great War, 1914–1924 investigates how American participation in World War I further strained the region’s relationship with the federal government, how wartime hardships altered the South’s traditional social structure,...
Literary Modernism and Beyond
The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Early modernists turned to theories of consciousness and aestheticism to combat what they saw as the hostility of naturalism and to find new ways of thinking about reality. This consciousness took various forms, including a Jamesian sense of moral ambiguity, Proustian time spots, and B ergsonian intuition,...
by Ida Altman, Ras Michael Brown, Matt Childs
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the lives, places, and stories of women in the Iberian Atlantic between 1500 and 1800. Distinguished contributors such as Ida Altman, Matt D. Childs, and Allyson M. Poska utilize the complexities of gender to understand issues of race, class,...