Kent State University Press: 593 books
Rhetorical Drag
Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
An innovative discussion of this unique genre of American literature
In this fresh examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity narratives, author Lorrayne Carroll argues that male editors and composers impersonated the women presumed to be authors of...
Melville as Poet
The Art of Pulsed Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Herman Melville’s literary reputation is based chiefly on his fiction, especially Moby-Dick and Billy Budd. Yet he was a gifted poet, as evidenced by his collection of Civil War poems, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), and by his epic-length poem, Clarel (1876), a symbolic rendering of...
There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale
More Essays on Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2017
Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and co-creator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engagement with fairy stories, the special world that he called faërie, a world they both create and inhabit, and with the elements that make that world the special...
C. S. Lewis's Perelandra
Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The first single-volume study of an important Lewis novel
C. S. Lewis considered his novel Perelandra (1943) among his best works. A triumph of imaginative science fiction, Perelandra—the second volume of Lewis’s “Space Trilogy”—is also theologically ambitious. C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra:...
Sundays in the Pound
The Heroics and Heartbreak of the 1985-89 Cleveland Browns
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
The essential guide to every game in Browns history
Every Sunday in autumn, a new chapter is written in the long and storied history of the Cleveland Browns. Win or lose, with each contest, the mythos of this beloved franchise is extended and enriched in the hearts of the sport’s most loyal...
Classic Browns
The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Browns History - Second Edition, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
This revised and updated edition of Classic Browns counts down the fifty greatest Cleveland Browns games, from unexpected upsets to incredible comebacks to titanic championship battles. Knight ranks heartbreakers like The Fumble and The Drive alongside championship duels and epic confrontations with...
Hunting the Unicorn
A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
A significant poet in her own right, Ruth Pitter has long deserved this biography, which thoughtfully assesses her place in the British poetic landscape. Popular in the United Kingdom from the early 1930s until her death in 1992, Pitter won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature in 1937 for A Trophy...
by Doris T. Myers
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Although C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) achieved a level of popularity as a fiction writer, literary scholars have tended to view him as a minor figure working in an insignificant genre-science fiction-or have pigeonholed him as a Christian apologist and moralist. In C. S. Lewis in Context, Doris T. Myers...
Modernizing the American War Department
Change and Continuity in a Turbulent Era, 1885-1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
An important study of the evolution of the U.S. War Department
Not a simple, linear administrative history, Modernizing the American War Department is a unique study of the adjustment of nineteenth-century military organizations to the managerial, technological, and policy challenges of a new...
Johnson's Island
A Prison for Confederate Officers
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In 1861, Lt. Col. William Hoffman was appointed to the post of commissary general of prisoners and urged to find a suitable site for the construction of what was expected to be the Union’s sole military prison. After inspecting four islands in Lake Erie, Hoffman came upon one in Sandusky Bay known...
The Gentle Warrior
General Oliver Prince Smith, USMC
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
In November 1950, United Nations forces in Korea were stopped in their advance toward the Yalu River by Chinese Communist forces and were in danger of being overrun. Vastly outnumbered by enemy forces, the First Marine Division was cut off from its base at Wonson.
General Oliver Prince Smith,...
Pantaloons and Power
A Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men’s style of dress moved from the ornate to the moderate, women’s fashions continued to be decorative and physically...
April '65
Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
William A. Tidwell establishes the existence of a Confederate Secret Service and clarifies the Confederate decision making process to show the role played by Jefferson Davis in clandestine operations. While the book focuses on the Confederate Secret Service's involvement with the Lincoln assassination,...
Phantoms of the South Fork
Captain McNeill and His Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
At 3 a.m. on February 21, 1865, a band of 65 Confederate horsemen slowly made its way down Greene Street in Cumberland, Maryland. Thinking the riders were disguised Union scouts, the few Union soldiers out that bitterly cold morning paid little attention to them. In the meantime, over 3,500 Yankee...