Books in the Clemson University Press series

"Granville Bantock: A Guide to Research provides both researchers and British music aficionados an entry to documents, books, articles, recordings, and the like currently available for further study about Bantock's life and music. Location and descriptive details of the manuscripts that are extant will assist those looking to construct editions of especially those works which have remained in manuscript and updated editions of those works which were initially published nearly 100 years ago. A discography provides insight into the wide variety of recording companies that first served Bantock's music. Included in the book are sections about: academic theses and dissertations, citations of locations of many of Bantock's letters, and an index that cross-references all of these details to the works which they highlight is a major help to the reader"--

"Scholarly Milton is a collection of essays concerned with the function of scholarship in both the invention and the reception of Milton's writings in poetry and prose. The eleven essays examine 'scholarly Milton' the writer and 'scholarly Milton' as an established academic discipline"--

"The Fire that Breaks traces Gerard Manley Hopkins's continuing and pervasive influence among writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Not only do the essays explore responses to Hopkins by individual writers--including, among others, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, and Charles Wright--but they also examine Hopkins's substantial influence among Caribbean poets, Appalachian writers, and contemporary poets whose work lies at the intersection of ecopoetry and theology. Combining essays by the world's leading Hopkins scholars with essays by scholars from diverse fields, the collection examines both known and unexpected affinities. The Fire that Breaks is a persistent testimony to the lasting, continuing impact of Hopkins on poetry in English"--

This collection is intended as a useful introduction to Virginia Woolf's celebrated and often misunderstood novel, designed for both teachers and students. It is hoped it will lead to a deep understanding of Mrs. Dalloway and Woolf's method in general.

"Sam Aleckson was the pen name for Samuel Williams, a man born into slavery in Charleston, South Carolina, who wrote a memoir about his life and the world around him during and after his bondage. Published privately by his family, Before the War and After the Union traces Williams's life from his earliest memories of being enslaved and forced to serve Confederate soldiers in army camps, through the post-Civil War years as his family struggled to re-connect and build a new life during Reconstruction. It the ends with tales about his life as the head of a southern Black family newly relocated to Vermont at the turn-of-the-century"--

This volume addresses the integration of Beat authors, texts, and themes into formal academic settings. Addressed to secondary and post secondary instructors, the book features six domains: 1) Foundational Issues, 2) Beat Literary Genres, 3) Beat Literary Topics, 4) Beat Lineages and Legacies, 5) Selected Resources, and 6) Sample Assignments.