Books published by Louisiana State University Press

Focusing on the philosophical registers of literary texts, Adam Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes toward subjectivity, particularly in relation to issues of ideology, spatiality, and violence. His analysis explores a selection of works published between 1904 and 1941.

Jane Austen has resonated with readers across generations like no other writer. More than two hundred years after the publication of Pride and Prejudice, people continue to honour "dear Jane". In Performing Jane, Sarah Glosson explores this vibrant fandom, examining a long history of Austen fans engaging with her work.

Gathers a range of critical approaches to provide an essential resource for readers, students, and teachers interested in understanding this ever-present feature of today's media and political landscape. This volume offers a wide-ranging and accessible discussion of debates central to the current post-truth era.

Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the US South.

One of the South's most revered writers, Ernest J. Gaines attracts both popular and academic audiences. In this welcome guide to Gaines's fiction, Keith Clark offers insightful analyses of his novels and short stories.

The word Creole evokes a richness rivaled only by the term's widespread misunderstanding. Now both aspects of this unique people and culture are given thorough, illuminating scrutiny in Creole, a comprehensive, multidisciplinary history of Louisiana's Creole population.

This collection of poems claims as subjects the life of the spirit, the vicissitudes of love and the African-American experience since slavery and arranges them as pebbles marking our common journey toward a "monstrous love / that wants to make the world right."

After more than two decades, Origins of the New South is still recognised both as a classic in regional historiography and as the most perceptive account yet written on the period which spawned the New South.

Investigates an overlooked genre of early American literature - the Revolutionary War veteran narrative - showing that it by turns both promotes and critiques a notion of military heroism as the source of US sovereignty.

In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his supporters saw Bonapartist France as a model for the Confederate States of America.

Provides a detailed analysis of LSU's beginnings and early development, starting well before it first opened its doors in Pineville, Louisiana, in 1860. Paul Hoffman reveals how political and ideological contests in areas of governance, curriculum, finances, discipline, and student life influenced the early identity and development of the school.

In Refusal, her searing new collection of poetry, Jenny Molberg draws on elements of the uncanny - invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons & Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide - to investigate trauma, addiction, and forces of oppression.

Offers short lyrical meditations and narratives that wrestle with contemporary issues of the environment, spirituality, and the social. These compact, imagistic poems welcome space and silence as a way of addressing both the commonality and complexity of people and experience.

In this subtle and candid collection, Lisa Ampleman mixes contemporary elements and historical materials as she speaks back to the literary tradition of courtly love. Instead of bachelor knights bemoaning their allegedly cruel beloveds, Romances emphasizes the voices of female troubadours, along with those of historical figures.

As a work of documentary poetry, Naming the Leper demonstrates that a term like "leper", whether a stigma attached to patients suffering from illness or a word inscribed on the caskets of the deceased, cannot define the lives of individuals or encompass the full extent of their legacies.