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Awakenings
The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
One of the most often repeated anecdotes about the direction of literary studies over the past three decades concerns a graduate student who complained of reading Kate Chopin's The Awakening in three classes and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick in none. But Chopin has not always been featured in the literary...
Kate Chopin Reconsidered
Beyond the Bayou
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
In this indispensable volume, fourteen intellectually compelling essays consider Kate Chopin's life and art from a variety of critical perspectives—biographical, New Historicist, materialist, poststructuralist, feminist—with several of the pieces focusing on Chopin's classic novel, The Awakening.
by Waldo W. Braden
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1993
In Abraham Lincoln, Public Speaker, Waldo W. Braden presents a thought-provoking study of the sixteenth president’s rhetorical style. In his discussion of Lincoln’s speaking practices from 1854 through 1865, Braden draws extensively on Lincoln’s papers and the reports of those who knew him and...
A Rebel Wife in Texas
The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852--1864
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
A Rebel Wife in Texas offers a singular glimpse into nineteenth-century southern culture through the eyes of a captivating and complex woman who, as a product of that culture, both revered and reviled it.
Elizabeth Scott Neblett was raised in a slaveholding family in eastern Texas. Despite...
Under the Pergola
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Always spirited and elegant, by turns witty and meditative, Catharine Savage Brosman's Under the Pergola contemplates Louisiana, past and present, before traveling a broader path that crosses Colorado landscapes and the island of Sicily.
In her eighth collection of poems, Brosman evokes the Pelican...
The Resistance, 1940
An Anthology of Writings from the French Underground
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The Resistance, 1940 illuminates the early phase of the French Resistance through first-hand accounts, describing how movements organized themselves in opposition to both German occupation and the collaborationist Vichy government. Translated and annotated by Charles Potter, these writings, composed...
by Claudia Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
In Claude before Time and Space, her final collection, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Claudia Emerson quietly but fiercely explores the themes of mortality and time.
In the first section of this book, “The Wheel,” Emerson uses a rural southern setting in poems that reflect on memory, the...
God's Foolishness
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
St. Paul writes "the foolishness of God is wiser than men." The poems in William Wenthe's God's Foolishness mine the feelings of human uncertainty in matters of love and desire, time and death, and uncover difficult truths with transformative insights.
These are poems of crisis. Wenthe examines our...
Overlook
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Years in the making, Stephen Sandy’s Overlook gathers themes and occasions that have intrigued the poet throughout his career. This powerful collection explores love and death, success and failure, war and disaster, with appropriate measures of wit and grief. Meditations on life as a game to be...
Undead Souths
The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Walking Dead. As Undead Souths reveals, physical emanations of southern undeadness are legion, but undeadness also appears in symbolic, psychological, and...
Waterlines
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
In Waterlines, Louisiana native Alison Pelegrin gives us poems that describe the terrible power of nature even as they underscore the state’s beauty. The poet moves from the familiar gaudy delights of life in New Orleans to immerse the reader in the vastly different experience of living north of...
Approaching Winter
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Floyd Skloot’s seven previous poetry collections include The End of Dreams, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and The Snow’s Music. His work has won three Pushcart Prizes and the PEN USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Using Plants for Stormwater Management
A Green Infrastructure Guide for the Gulf South
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The subtropical climate of the Gulf South supports a varied abundance of flora, and this diversity is sustained by the ample amount of rainwater that characterizes the region. Managing rainwater in a planned environment and mitigating its effect on human habitation can test the skills of even the...
Imagining the Creole City
The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
In the early years of the nineteenth century, the burgeoning cultural pride of white Creoles in New Orleans intersected with America's golden age of print, to explosive effect. Imagining the Creole City reveals the profusion of literary output -- histories and novels, poetry and plays -- that white...