West Virginia University Press imprint: 59 books
Tolkien Studies
An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume V
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields.
Tolkien Studies
An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume VII
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields.
Tolkien Studies
An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume VI
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields
The Book of Emperors
A Translation of the Middle High German Kaiserchronik
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Kaiserchronik (c.1152–1165) is the first verse chronicle to have been written in a language other than Latin. This story recounts the exploits of the Roman, Byzantine, Carolingian, and Holy Roman kings and rulers, from the establishment of Rome to the start of the Second Crusade. As an early...
by Charles W. Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil Rights activist, legal-stenography businessman, and lawyer whose novels and short stories explore race, racism, and the problematic contours of African Americans’ social and cultural identities in post-Civil War...
by Frances H. Whipple, Elleanor Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Elleanor Eldridge, born of African and US indigenous descent in 1794, operated a lucrative domestic services business in nineteenth century Providence, Rhode Island. In defiance of her gender and racial background, she purchased land and built rental property from the wealth she gained as a business...
Bede and Aethelthryth
An Introduction to Christian Latin Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
*Bede and Aethelthryth *asks why Christians in Britain around the year 700 enjoyed Latin poetry. What did they see in it? What did they get from it? This book attempts to reconstruct the horizon of expectation of a highly learned, Latin-speaking nun as she encounters a fifty-line poem by the Venerable...
by Sutton E. Griggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Between 1899 and 1908, five long works of fiction by the Nashville-based black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs appeared in print, making him the most prolific African American novelist at the turn of the twentieth century. Brought out by Griggs’s own Orion Publishing Company in three distinct...
Smell and History
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Smell and History collects many of the most important recent essays on the history of scent, aromas, perfumes, and ways of smelling. With an introduction by Mark M. Smith—one of the leading social and cultural historians at work today and the preeminent champion in the United States of the emerging...
Ecological Governance
Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
As our economic and natural systems continue on their collision course, Bruce Jennings asks whether we have the political capacity to avoid large-scale environmental disaster. Can liberal democracy, he wonders, respond in time to ecological challenges that require dramatic changes in the way we approach...
Fifty Cents and a Box Top
The Creative Life of Nashville Session Musician Charlie McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
From Ann-Margret to Bob Dylan and George Jones to Simon & Garfunkel, Nashville harmonica virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist Charlie McCoy has contributed to some of the most successful recordings of country, pop, and rock music of the last six decades. As the leader of the Hee Haw “Million-Dollar...
The News Untold
Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia. It focuses on how small-town reporters and editors in some of the region’s poorest communities decide what aspects of poverty are news, how their audiences interpret those decisions, and how those...
The Argument about Things in the 1980s
Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In the late 1970s, a Jeff Koons art exhibit featured mounted vacuum cleaners lit by fluorescent tube lighting and identified by their product names: New Hoover Quik Broom, New Hoover Celebrity IV. Raymond Carver published short stories such as “Are These Actual Miles?” that cataloged the furniture,...