The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books
Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines
Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
A cultural history of science and science fiction
Using key canonical science fiction narratives, Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines examines the intersection of the literary and scientific cultures of the nineteenth century. In this original and refreshing approach to the study of early science...
A Self-Evident Lie
Southern Slavery and the Threat to American Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
A Self-Evident Lie explores and underscores the fear and complex meaning of “slavery” to northerners before the Civil War. Many northerners asked: If slavery was the beneficent and paternalistic institution that southerners claimed, could it not be applied with equal morality to whites as well...
by Catherine Kenney
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1991
One of the most fascinating comments often made about Dorothy l. Sayers is that she wrote “real” novels. Catherine Kenney considers why Sayers mysteries tend to strike astute readers this way, and in so doing, suggests her place not only in the history of detection, but in the larger tradition...
by Janice Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1998
The impact of Dorothy L. Sayer’s work is a powerful one. She was a gifted artist who worked in many genres and addressed many issues, but her achievement goes beyond creative skill and variety of range. What she consistently communicates about Sin—the basic problem of human existence—provides...
by James R. Cowdery
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
This is a major work, at once synthetic and analytical. The author has drawn on previous studies of Irish music and general melodic theory to describe the inner workings of a rich melodic tradition. Irish folk music, resting upon monophonic melodies which are varied and ornamented, and thus viewed...
Melville and the Visual Arts
Ionian Form, Venetian Tint
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Throughout his professional life, Herman Melville displayed a keen interest in the visual arts. He alluded to works of art to embellish his poems and novels and made substantial use of the technique of ekphrasis, the literary description of works of visual arts, to give body to plot and character....
Reading Hemingway's Men Without Women
Glossary and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
“The aim of this book is not to have the final word on the meaning of the stories that compose Men Without Women. Rather, the study attempts to probe the events of each story as we encounter them. It seeks to explain historical references, to identify allusions, to see how form suggests meaning.”...
by Christine Gosnay
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
“The poems in Christine Gosnay’s first book, Even Years, speak with a voice that animates and astonishes us as they delineate and explore, trace and explode, the ‘order of shapes in the light’—the order of words, of moments in a life, of shifts in perspective between the ‘cleave and /...
by Virginia Hansen Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
The experiences of an American family in the Philippines during World War II
Just nine days before her seventh birthday, Virginia Hansen Holmes heard about the attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor and wondered if this was going to change her life. She lived on the Philippine Island of...
Fashioning Authority
The Development of Elizabethan Novelistic Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Various factors in late 16th-century England contributed to an environment more hospitable to prose fiction than had existed previously-among them, changes in educational opportunities, socioeconomic structures, literacy rates, and access to European literature. Such cultural alterations inevitably...
Reading Hemingway's To Have and Have Not
Glossary and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Published in 1937, Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not is that rare example of a novel whose cultural impact far outweighs its critical reputation. Long criticized for its fragmented form, its ham-fisted approach to politics, and its hard-boiled obsession with cojones, this blistering tale of...
by Jonathan Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The brutal murder of Julia Wallace in 1931 became one of Britain’s great unsolved murders. People began arguing about the case almost immediately and continue to do so to this day.
Julia was the middle-aged wife of a mild-mannered Liverpool insurance agent, William Herbert Wallace. By all...
Terrorism for Self-Glorification
The Herostratos Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1969
Examines the motives of terrorists, from ancient Greece to the present day
“A unique work of. . . history, made all the more interesting by its relevance to the time in which we live.”
—James R. Elkins, editor of Legal Studies Forum
In this timely study of the roots of terrorism,...
Sword of the Border
Major General Jacob Jennings Brown, 1775-1828
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
Jacob Jennings Brown may well be the most successful—yet forgotten—general of his time. Born into a Pennsylvania Quaker family on the eve of the American Revolution, Brown worked as a Quaker schoolteacher and surveyor and was a pioneer settler of northern New York before serving in the U.S. Army...