Books by Ed White

Roland Barthes is one of the most influential cultural theorists of the postwar period and Image-Music-Text collects his most influential essays. Ed White provides students with a clear guide to this essential but difficult text.*BR**BR*As students are increasingly expected to write across a range of media, Barthes' work can be understood as an early mapping of what we now call interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary study. The book's detailed section-by-section readings makes Barthes' most important writings accessible to undergraduate readers.*BR**BR*This book is a perfect companion for teaching and learning Barthes' ideas in cultural studies and literary theory.

Offering an interpretation of eighteenth-century America, this book focuses on the agrarian majority as distinct from the elite urban minority. It explores the backcountry-city divide as well as the dynamics of indigenous peoples, bringing together two distinct bodies of scholarship.