Lsu Press: 854 books
by Jerome McGann, Scott Peeples, Jennifer Rae Greeson
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) has long occupied the position of literary outsider. Dismissed as unrepresentative of the main currents of antebellum culture, Poe commented incisively -- in fiction and nonfiction -- on nationalism, science, materialism, popular taste, and cultural ideology. Opposing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
From antebellum readers avidly consuming stories featuring white southern men as benevolent patriarchs, hell-raising frontiersmen, and callous plantation owners to post--Civil War southern writers seeking to advance a model of southern manhood and male authority as honorable, dignified, and admirable,...
The Scary Mason-Dixon Line
African American Writers and the South
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare himself to death. In The Scary Mason-Dixon Line, renowned literary scholar Trudier Harris explores why black writers, whether born in Mississippi,...
by James L. Huston
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
In the autumn of 1857, sustained runs on New York banks led to a panic atmosphere that affected the American economy for the next two years. In The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War, James L. Huston presents an exhaustive analysis of the political, social and intellectual repercussions...
The Plague Files
Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In the first half of the 1580s, Seville, Spain, confronted a series of potentially devastating crises. In three years, the city faced a brush with deadly contagion, including the plague; the billeting of troops in preparation for Philip II's invasion of Portugal; crop failure and famine following...
Troubled Commemoration
The American Civil War Centennial, 1961–1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
In 1957, Congress voted to set up the United States Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency within the Department of the Interior, the commission's charge was to oversee preparations to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the central event in the Republic's history. Politicians...
We Have Raised All of You
Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
White, black, and Native American women in the early South often viewed motherhood as a composite of roles, ranging from teacher and nurse to farmer and politician. Within a multicultural landscape, mothers drew advice and consolation from female networks, broader intellectual currents, and an understanding...
Plantation Airs
Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945--1971
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the often neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after World War II, Costello asserts that well into the...
by Rita Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
During the revolutionary age and in the early republic, when racial ideologies were evolving and slavery expanding, some northern blacks surprisingly came to identify very strongly with the American cause and to take pride in calling themselves American. In this intriguing study, Rita Roberts explores...
Emancipating New York
The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777–1827
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
An innovative blend of cultural and political history, Emancipating New York is the most complete study to date of the abolition of slavery in New York state. Focusing on public opinion, David N. Gellman shows New Yorkers engaged in vigorous debates and determined activism during the final decades...
Still Fighting the Civil War
The American South and Southern History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
"This is a probing book about the hold of the past, experienced largely as heritage and memory and not as historical understanding, on a whole region and people. Goldfield treats the Lost Cause with unblinking directness.... its main strength: the stress on the weight of memory and its enduring links...
Bad Girls at Samarcand
Sexuality and Sterilization in a Southern Juvenile Reformatory
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Of the many consequences advanced by the rise of the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, North Carolina forcibly sterilized more than 2,000 women and girls in between 1929 and 1950. This extreme measure reflects how pseudoscience justified widespread gender, race, and class discrimination...
Resisting Equality
The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
In Resisting Equality Stephanie R. Rolph examines the history of the Citizens’ Council, an organization committed to coordinating opposition to desegregation and black voting rights. In the first comprehensive study of this racist group, Rolph follows the Citizens’ Council from its establishment...