Lsu Press imprint: 854 books
by Nicole Cooley
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
The poems in Girl after Girl after Girl celebrate the connections between mothers and daughters from generation to generation. Through an acknowledgment of mothers’ unconditional love, the memories evoked by physical objects, and the stories mothers pass down, these poems explore the common thread...
Wallace Stevens
A Poet's Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1986
In Wallace Stevens: A Poet’s Growth, George S. Lensing examines Stevens’ gradual emergence and development as a poet, tracing his life from his formative years in Pennsylvania to his careers as a lawyer for the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and as one of the major poets of the twentieth...
Faulkner's Imperialism
Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
In Faulkner's Imperialism, Taylor Hagood explores two staples of Faulkner's world: myth and place. Using an interdisciplinary approach to examine the economic, sociological, and political factors in Faulkner's writing, he applies postcolonial theory, cultural materialism, and the work of the New Southernists...
Small-Screen Souths
Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
As the first collection dedicated to the relationship between television and the U.S. South, Small-Screen Souths addresses the growing interest in how mass culture represents the region and influences popular perceptions of it. In sixteen essays divided into three thematic sections, scholars of southern...
Words Before Dawn
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
William Wenthe's third collection begins in the domestic realm then moves outward in subject and place -- to a bird market in Paris, the Jaffa Gate in Old Jerusalem, the Chain Bridge in Budapest -- before returning to the familial. The poet recalls his own cherished experiences of fatherhood: rocking...
A Dark Rose
Love in Eudora Welty's Stories and Novels
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
From the heartbroken protagonist she depicted in her first published story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," to the reflective widow she described in her last novel, The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty wrote realistically about the shadows and radiance of love. In a meticulous exploration of this...
Modernist Women Writers and War
Trauma and the Female Body in Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
In Modernist Women Writers and War, Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick examines important avant-garde writings by three American women authors and shows that during World Wars I and II a new kind of war literature emerged -- one in which feminist investigation of war and trauma effectively counters the paradigmatic...
An Artisan Intellectual
James Carter and the Rise of Modern Britain, 1792-1853
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
In An Artisan Intellectual, Christopher Ferguson examines the life and ideas of English tailor and writer James Carter, one of countless and largely anonymous citizens whose lives dramatically transformed during Britain’s long march to modernity. Carter began his working life at age thirteen as...
I Watched You Disappear
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Passionately written and perfectly crafted, Anya Krugovoy Silver's poems help us to view life through a different lens. In I Watched You Disappear, she offers meditations on sickness but also celebrations of art, motherhood, and family, as well as a sequence of poems based on the fairy tales of the...
by Edward G. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1971
A study of the course and consequences of modern Western thought, this volume deals with some of the most crucial philosophical questions of our time.
In Philosophy at the Crossroads, Edward G. Ballard defines philosophy as the interpretation of archaic experience -- that transition or change...
by Caryn Cossé Bell
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
With the Federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, Afro-Creole leaders in that city, along with their white allies, seized upon the ideals of the American and French Revolutions and images of revolutionary events in the French Caribbean and demanded Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. Their republican...
Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South
Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Hurricanes, floods, oil spills, disease, and disappearing wetlands are some of the many environmental disasters that impact the Gulf South. The contributors to Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South explore the threat, frequency, and management of this region’s disasters from the mid-nineteenth...
Southern Waters
The Limits to Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Water has dominated images of the South throughout history, from Hernando de Soto's 1541 crossing of the Mississippi to tragic scenes of flooding throughout the Gulf South after Hurricane Katrina. But these images tell only half the story: as urban, industrial, and population growth create unprecedented...
Treating the Trauma of the Great War
Soldiers, Civilians, and Psychiatry in France, 1914-1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
From the outset of World War I, French doctors faced an apparent epidemic of puzzling neurological and psychiatric illnesses among soldiers. As they attempted to understand the causes of these illnesses, doctors organized specialized centers near the front, where they submitted soldiers to swift,...