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by Parley Ann Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This exploration of the ways in which pregnancy affects narrative begins with two canonical American texts, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1848) and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Relying on such diverse works as Frankenstein, Peyton Place, Beloved, and...
by Jennifer Lawler
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in the 15th century fought against the English for the French gaining sainthood in 1920. Many know of Eleanor of Aquataine, 12th century Queen of France and England, and powerful manipulator...
The Pond Mountain Chronicle
Self-Portrait of a Southern Appalachian Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Located in the area where North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee meet, Pond Mountain rises to over 4,000 feet. In its valley it holds the Pond Mountain community, a small area in Ashe County, North Carolina. Most of the families that live in the valley have been there for generations, farming the...
King Arthur's European Realm
New Evidence from Monmouth's Primary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
What is known of the legendary King Arthur is mostly derived from folklore and literature. Though the evidence is scant and debated, some scholars support a case for the existence of a historical figure in post–Roman Britain. However, the starting point for many King Arthur narratives—Geoffrey...
"When Brothers Dwell in Unity"
Byzantine Christianity and Homosexuality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In the world of early Byzantine Christianity, monastic rules acknowledged but discouraged the homosexual impulses of adult males. What most disturbed monastic leaders was adolescent males being accepted as novices; adult men were considered unable to control their sexual desires for these “beautiful...
A Male President for Mount Holyoke College
The Failed Fight to Maintain Female Leadership, 1934-1937
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
A struggle arose over who would succeed Mary Emma Woolley as president of Mount Holyoke College in 1937. Over her 36-year tenure, Woolley had transformed Mount Holyoke into an elite women’s college in which leadership in the administration and faculty was almost exclusively female. Beginning in...
Seven Cherokee Myths
Creation, Fire, the Primordial Parents, the Nature of Evil, the Family, Universal Suffering, and Communal Obligation
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Like ancient peoples the world over, the Cherokees of the southern Appalachian Mountains passed along their traditions and beliefs through stories, songs, dances, and religious and healing rituals. With the creation of Cherokee writing by Sequoyah, some of the traditions were also recorded in books....
Gender Bending Detective Fiction
A Critical Analysis of Selected Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. Reflecting these changes, storylines that involve cross-dressing and transgender characters have frequently appeared in detective fiction—characters who subvert the conventions of the genre and challenge reader...
Major General Israel Putnam
Hero of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
A colorful figure of 18th-century America, Israel Putnam (1718–1790) played a key role in both the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. In 1758 he barely escaped from being burned alive by Mohawk warriors. He later commanded a force of 500 men who were shipwrecked off the coast of Cuba....
Homophones and Homographs
An American Dictionary, 4th ed.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
This expanded fourth edition defines and cross-references 9,040 homophones and 2,133 homographs (up from 7,870 and 1,554 in the 3rd ed.). As the most comprehensive compilation of American homophones (words that sound alike) and homographs (look-alikes), this latest edition serves well where even the...
Bishop Richard Fox of Winchester
Architect of the Tudor Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Bishop Richard Fox of Winchester (1448–1528) was an important early modern English prelate whose tireless service to his church, to his king and to humanist studies single him out as one of the great shapers of the Tudor age. This book explores the life and career of Bishop Fox as an architect of...
The British Heroic Age
A History, 367-664
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Drawing on historical documents, legends, archeology and literature, this history describes the disintegration of Roman Britain that reached a climax in the decades after the Britons overthrew Constantine’s government and were refused Roman rule. Beginning with the weakening of Roman Britain, the...
The Early Jews and Muslims of England and Wales
A Genetic and Genealogical History
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
This book proposes that Jews were present in England in substantial numbers from the Roman Conquest forward. Indeed, there has never been a time during which a large Jewish-descended, and later Muslim-descended, population has been absent from England. Contrary to popular history, the Jewish population...
The Half-Game Pennant of 1908
Four Teams Chase Victory in the American League
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
The 1908 American League pennant race was described as a “a fierce and fluctuating fight.” With five games left in the season, each of the league’s four westernmost teams still had a shot at the championship. It was the height of the Deadball Era, noted for its spectacular pitching, low scoring,...