Ohio State University Press: 123 books
A Theology of Sense
John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Scott Dill’s A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature brings together theology, aesthetics, and the body, arguing that Updike, a central figure in post-1945 American literature, deeply embeds in his work questions of the body and the senses...
Seeming Human
Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character offers a new theory of realist character through character’s unexpected afterlife: the intelligent machine. The book contends that mid-twentieth-century versions of artificial intelligence (AI) offer a theory of verisimilitude...
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Bringing together scholars from literary, historical, and religious studies,Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religioninterrogates the seemingly obvious category of “religion.” This collection argues that any application of religion engages in complex and relatively modern historical processes....
by Louis Stokes, David Chanoff
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Louis Stokes was a giant in Ohio politics and one of the most significant figures in the U.S. Congress in recent times. When he arrived in the House of Representatives as a freshman in 1969, there were only six African Americans serving. By the time he retired thirty years later, he had chaired the...
Iron Valley
The Transformation of the Iron Industry in Ohio's Mahoning Valley, 1802–1913
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Youngstown, Ohio, and the surrounding Mahoning Valley supplied the iron that helped transform the United States into an industrial powerhouse in the nineteenth century. The story of the Mahoning Valley’s unorthodox rise from mid-scale iron producer to twentieth-century “Steel Valley” is a tale...
Polonium in the Playhouse
The Manhattan Project's Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
At the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the Midwest’s most affluent residential neighborhoods became a secret Manhattan Project laboratory. Polonium in the Playhouse: The Manhattan Project's Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio presents the intriguing...
by Karen A. McClintock
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Thirty years after her father’s death, Karen McClintock sets out to find the gay father she never really knew. As we follow the unraveling family secret, we find ourselves drawn into her story as they stumble into infidelity, grieve heartbreaking losses, and remain loyal in love.
Set in Columbus,...
Community In-Between / Urur Dhex Dhexad Ah
Portraits of Somali-Americans in Columbus
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
*Community In-Between / Urur Dhex Dhexad Ah: Portraits of Somali-Americans in Columbus *by Qorsho Hassan and Ruth M. Smith is a collection of stories and portraits of fifteen young Somali Americans involved in community building in Columbus, Ohio. By using their unique skills, these individuals...
by Bob Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
James Thurber’s Columbus was not today’s Columbus—or even yesterday’s. It was a Columbus he both knew and created, a place perched on the fringe of reality and the fringe of his imagination. It is the place Bob Hunter revisits in Thurberville, a book where the author separates truth from...
The Trouble with Men
Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
David Shields’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power is an immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy. All at once a love letter to his wife, a nervy reckoning with his own fallibility, a meditation on the impact of porn on American...
Through a Long Absence
Words from My Father's Wars
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
A 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Silver Winner for Biography
Against the backdrop of World War II, Joy Passanante’s touching new book, Through a Long Absence: Words from My Father’s Wars, is the saga of a wartime medical unit, a passionate long-distance love, the making of a surgeon,...
by Patricia Vigderman
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Ownership battles over the marbles removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin have been rumbling into invective, pleading, and counterclaims for two centuries. The emotional temperature around them is high, and steering across the vast past to safe anchor in a brilliant heritage is tricky. The stories...
The Trouble with Men
Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
David Shields’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power is an immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy. All at once a love letter to his wife, a nervy reckoning with his own fallibility, a meditation on the impact of porn on American...
by Barrie Jean Borich
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
From award-winning author Barrie Jean Borich comes Apocalypse, Darling, a narrative, lyric exploration of the clash between old and new. Set in the steel mill regions of Chicago and in Northwest Indiana, the story centers on Borich’s return to a decimated landscape for a misbegotten wedding in...