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Of Dreams and Assassins
Mokeddem, MalikaOf Dreams and Assassins is the urgent and rhythmic fourth novel of Malika Mokeddem, her second to appear in English. Born in Algeria to a Bedouin family that had only recently...
Reading through the Night
Tompkins, JaneJane Tompkins, a renowned literature professor and award-winning author, thought she knew what reading was until, struck by a debilitating illness, she finds herself reading...
Bound Away
Virginia and the Westward Movement
Fischer, David Hackett, Kelly, James C.Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After the Turner thesis which celebrated the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the...
Grief and Meter
Elegies for Poets after Auden
Connolly, SallyThe elegizing of poets is one of the oldest and most enduring traditions in English poetry. Many of the most influential and best-known poems in the language—such as Milton’s "...
The Dynamics of Genre
Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain
Liddle, DallasNewspapers, magazines, and other periodicals reached a peak of cultural influence and financial success in Britain in the 1850s and 1860s, out-publishing and out-selling books...
The Book of Common Prayer, 1559
The Elizabethan Prayer Book
Booty, John E.John E. Booty’s edition of The Book of Common Prayer, 1559, first published by the University Press of Virginia for the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1976 and long out...
Women in Exile
Afkhami, MahnazAttempting to come to terms with her own life in exile, Afkhami, who was forced out of Iran because of her work for women's rights, sought out and talked with 12 other women...
The Forgotten Female Aesthetes
Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England
Schaffer, TaliaMost critics of aestheticism focus on the Yellow Book, the glossy Victorian journal with the shocking yellow cover that counted among its contributors Aubrey Beardsley and Max...
Gettysburg Contested
150 Years of Preserving America's Cherished Landscapes
Black, BrianAfter the American Revolution, sites representing key events in American history were crucial to the young nation's efforts to formalize its story. Following the Civil War,...
With the Hammer of Truth
James Thomson Callender and America's Early National Heroes
Durey, MichaelJames Thomson Callender earned an infamous reputation as one of the first muckraking journalists in America, resulting largely from his character assassinations of George...
Best New Poets 2015
50 Poems from Emerging Writers
Smith, Tracy K.Praise for earlier editions: "[A] reminder that contemporary poetry is not only alive and well but continuing to grow."-- Publishers Weekly "[These poets]...
What's Bugging You?
A Fond Look at the Animals We Love to Hate
Evans, Arthur V.We are told from the time we are children that insects and spiders are pests, when the truth is that most have little or no effect on us--although the few that do are often...
Rhetorical Investigations
Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism
Jost, WalterIn Rhetorical Investigations Walter Jost juxtaposes problems and questions in philosophy and literature, using rhetoric as the middle term and common ground between them...
A World of Disorderly Notions
Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism
Hanlon, Aaron R. Shortlisted for the Kenshur Prize for Best Book in Eighteenth-Century Studies from the Indiana University Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies From Jonathan...
"In the Hands of a Good Providence"
Religion in the Life of George Washington
Thompson, Mary V.Attempts by evangelical Christians to claim Washington and other founders as their own, and scholars' ongoing attempts to contradict these claims, are nothing new. Particularly...
Pirating Fictions
Ownership and Creativity in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture
Cohen, Monica F.Two distinctly different meanings of piracy are ingeniously intertwined in Monica Cohen's lively new book, which shows how popular depictions of the pirate held sway on the...
One Love, Ghoema Beat
Inside the Cape Town Carnival
Mason, John Edwin One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town Carnival takes readers behind the scenes of one of the world’s least known and most colorful carnivals. Similar in many ways...
A Voyage to Virginia in 1609
Two Narratives: Strachey's "True Reportory" and Jourdain's Discovery of the Bermudas
Strachey, William, Jourdain, Silvester, Wright, Louis B.To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the University of Virginia Press reissues its first-ever publication. The volume’s two accounts of the 1609 wreck of a Jamestown-bound...
The Language of Democracy
Political Rhetoric in the United States and Britain, 1790–1900
Robertson, Andrew W.Tracing the history of political rhetoric in nineteenth-century America and Britain, Andrew W. Robertson shows how modern election campaigning was born. Robertson discusses...
Idol of Suburbia
Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture
Federico, Annette R.Marie Corelli (1855–1924) was the most popular novelist of the turn of the century, outselling Hall Caine, Mrs. Humphry Ward, H. G. Wells, and Arthur Conan Doyle by the...
Strategies for Survival
Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia
Dusinberre, William Strategies for Survival conveys the experience of bondage through the words of former slaves themselves. The interviews—conducted in Virginia in 1937 by WPA...