Books published by The University of North Carolina Press

Simone Weil: Portrait of a Self-exiled Jew

Explores the intellectual background of Paradise Lost, with particular emphasis on problems of characterization. Character is fate, but it is also moral choice; and the nature of that choice plays a determining role in Milton's epic action. To analyse the principal actors in his epic, one must see them in their proper context.

This moving account of the many different aspects of the work of a child psychiatry consultant in therapeutic group child-care programs is a practical, jargon-free treatment of the problems and tested solutions arising in group-care situations. Originally published 1980.

Winthrop's Boston: A Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649

Talbert's discussion of the relationship between serious character-types and structure in the dramas of the late 1580s and the early 1590s reveals the various playwrights' precise control of their material and their effective utilization of the revenge motif, ideas concerning kingship, and other ready-made concepts. Originally published in 1963.

This volume completes Newman's monumental study of the sonata. It examines the evolution of the sonata idea from the precocious Romanticisms of Dussek before 1880 to the near exhaustion of Romantic music by the time of World War I. Thoroughly documented, illustrated by extended lists of sonatas as well as a full bibliography of Romantic music literature, this book is invaluable to musicians.

Few men in America's intellectual history have sought as much as Irving Babbitt to be a crucible for the cultural values that America had no inclination to receive. Even now, Babbitt remains a figure of controversy. He retains his reputation as a reactionary defender of genteel morality, yet, as Thomas Nevin reminds us, he continues to be a scholar of importance and an erudite, forceful teacher.

Explores Henry James' representation of children and adolescents, reaching its conclusions directly from the texts of the fiction itself. The major emphasis of the study is on identification, analysis, and synthesis of diverse thematic patterns that fused in the 1890s to produce the uniquely Jamesian child. Originally published in 1969.

Provides the first account in English of the revolutionary movement of 1848 in the Czech lands of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia; it is also the first in any language to cover the entire period of turmoil from the outbreak of the revolt in March 1848 to its final suppression during the summer of 1849. Originally published 1969.

Demonstrates both the limits and unique role of non statutory controls in a world that demands a flexible administrative response that might be overly constrained by rigid statutes. It also explains that nature and impact of congressional involvement through non statutory controls.

Examines the importance of publishers and the book industry in the rise of twentieth-century Germany's radical right-wing cultural movements. Stark shows that these men thought their their professional "calling" conferred upon them the right and responsibility to provide guidance for the German nation. Originally published in 1981.

The present volume is an important bibliographical and critical record of twentieth-century interest in Sterne. The introductory essay offers a comprehensive and a provocative survey of Sterne's present reputation, and at the same time, it appraises the permanence of the novelist's appeal. Originally published in 1966.

Traces the attack on American provincialism that ended the myth of the Happy Village. Replacing the idyllic life as a theme, American writers in revolt turned to a more realistic interpretation of the town, stressing its repressiveness, dullness, and conformity. This book analyses the literary technique employed by these writers and evaluates their contributions to American thought.

This volume of poetry illustrates a new side of the author of The Carnivore and Suits for the Dead. The wit, the toughness, the shining lyric clarity of the earlier books are still here, but they have been joined by a quiet understanding, a joyfulness, and an acceptance of things as they are that indicates the poet has moved into a new and exciting period.

The twenty-five poems included in this collection present a poet mature in both craft and perception and possessed of a fine capacity for being both lyric and analytic at the same time. There is no posturing, but always a position, both thought and felt.

Immigrants on the Land: Coffee and Society in Sao Paulo, 1886-1934"

Offers a survey of the frequent attempts of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica to combine into a single large state. Using the Central American Archives, the author traces all of the known attempts at federation and analyses the more basic reasons for continued lack of success. Originally published in 1961.

This biographical study is concerned with Locke's career as editor, publisher, lecturer, politician, and public figure, aspects of his life that have been largely obscured by the image of the fictitious Nasby. It also examines the broader aspects of Locke's significance as a journalist. Originally published in 1969.

This skilfully set forth argument convincingly demonstrates that Skelton's morality Magnyfycence, one of the most important survivals of early English dramas, has until now been consistently misread and that its theme and its structure are not organically unreconciled, as historians and critics have supposed. Originally published in 1965.

Offers a powerful and convincing attack on modern mechanized thinking, psychology, and progress. Hertz believes that the bourgeois emphasis on the external material must be focused on the inward creative, if man is to have a chance for survival. This volume is an adventure in philosophical reading. Originally published in 1946.

This book is based on actual cases carried by members in a course for public health workers given at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It identifies and discusses what is meant by casework, the idea of movement, empathy, avoiding self-involvement, not disarming the client, purposiveness in interviewing, and what it means to be a caseworker. Originally published in 1957.

This book is composed of two sections: the first dealing with native wild flowers; the second, with the exotic or cultivated varieties. The descriptions accompanying the illustrations are concise and explicit for purposes of identification, and useful information on flower arranging and cutting is included. Originally published in 1953.

With the use of song, music, poetry, dance, pantomime, and story-line, Green has created a colourful symphonic drama, presenting Thomas Jefferson's single-handed triumph over the dissension and discouragement of his fellow Americans to keep alive their ideal of liberty. It is an absorbing story punctuated with high comedy. Originally published in 1948.

East has constructed a well-written study of the model of the Childs system as well as of its inventor. He uses a new approach involving a tough-minded empirical testing of municipal reform doctrine - which to a considerable extent is a doctrine developed by Childs.

Bulletin number three of the Southern Humanities Conference presents a digest of replies to over a thousand personal letters sent to executives in business and government, asking their opinion of the value of humanistic studies in the training of personnel. It is a revelation to those who see no practical advantages in the study of humanities. Originally published in 1951.

Offers a structured course of twenty-six discussion guides for in-service training of the child care staff in children's institutions presented by Broten, executive director of the Mary Bartelme Home in Chicago and former associate director of the Group Child Care Project at the University of North Carolina.

Godly Rebellion: Parisian Cures and the Religious Fronde, 1652-1662

Explores how Woodrow Wilson, having fought against war with monumental patience, finally led the US into world conflict. He proved himself a militant fighter and strategist, and when victory came he believed that it had made possible a warless world. Wilson's fight for the League of Nations is vigorously told, as is the deep damnation of its defeat.

Reappraises the fourth royal governor of North Carolina, one-time surveyor-general of Ireland, known for his pamphlets on Irish and colonial economics and for his geographer's interest in the Northwest Passage. Dobbs is presented as a man with ideas in advance of his time.

The life of Flaminio mirrors the first half of the sixteenth century in Italy. He was a member of the courts of Leo X and the Duke of Urbino. As the finest lyric poet of he age, he was patronized by the church. He joined Valdes's circle in Naples and was coauthor of the most popular and most controversial religious works of the century. Originally published in 1965.