Books published by University of Georgia Press

From the mud of our formation (""Choir"") to the dust of our dying (""After Kandinsky""), Tod Marshall's poems lyrically obsess over how the broken and violated can envision and speak a heaven of which we know.

Provides an overview of the enormous contributions made by African American teachers to the black freedom movement in the United States. Beginning with the close of the Civil War, Adam Fairclough explores the development of educational ideals in the black community up through the years of the civil rights movement.

Now being rediscovered by a new generation of scholars, William Gilmore Simms (1807-1870) has come to be acknowledged as the ancestral father of modern southern literature. This collection of essays emphasizes his multifaceted portrayal of America's westward migration and examines his depictions of the frontier from traditional and theoretical perspectives.

In this groundbreaking study of what motivated soldiers to enlist and fight in the US's most bloody conflict, Joseph Allan Frank argues that politics was central to the development of the armies of the North and South: motivating soldiers, molding the organisation, defining the qualifications of officers, shaping fighting styles, and framing the nature of relations between the army and society.

Twelve scholars representing a variety of academic fields contribute to this study of slavery in the French Caribbean colonies. Based on official records and public documents, historical research, literary works, and personal accounts, these essays present a detailed view of the lives of those who experienced this period of rebellion and change.

An anthology of major writers that focuses on nature writing by African American poets. It offers fresh perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics.

By state law, graduates of public colleges and universities in Georgia must demonstrate proficiency with both the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. This widely used textbook helps students to satisfy that requirement, either in courses or by examination.

Intimate and poignant, Miss You offers a rich selection from the correspondence of one young couple during World War II, revealing their longings, affection, hopes, and fears and affording a privileged look at how ordinary people lived through the upheavals of the last century's greatest conflict.

The poems, plays, and political writings in this volume are essential to an understanding of Smollett and the literary and social currents of eighteenth-century England. In his introductions to the sections, Gassman traces the history of their publication and reception, and provides extensive explanations of historical and literary allusions.

This work brings to life Tobias Smollett's fourth novel, "The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves". This version includes more accurate text and critical information. It also includes an examination of "Sir Launcelot Greaves", the first illustrated serial novel.

This volume presents Smollett's 1755 translation of Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"" in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes discussion of the composition, publication, and reception of the work, and considers it's originality or debt to other versions.

An allegory of England during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), draping kings and politicians, domestic and foreign affairs in a veil of satire. This is a book of tales about ancient Japan related to a London haberdasher by an atom that has lived in the bodies of great figures of state.

This is a reprinting of Tobias Smollett's translation of The Devil upon Crutches. Alain Rene Le Sage's novel relates the picaresque wanderings of Asmodeus, a refined, likable but decrepit devil, and Zambullo, his newfound mortal companion. This edition is based on the 1759 second edition of Smollett's translation.

The first critical edition of Smollett's 1776 translation of Bishop Fenelon's 1699 "Mirror of Princes," one of the most popular and revered works of the eighteenth century, written especially for Duc de Burgogne, heir presumptive to Louis XIV, and meant to teach him the proper way to rule.

In this ensemble of beautifully personal, interrelated essays, writer and poet Rebecca McClanahan explores the familiar rituals, the shared dreams, and the guarded secrets that bind a family together.

Offers a corrective to some of America's institutionalised invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, intercultural history and migration that have linked the coastal American South with the Caribbean and the wider Atlantic world.

Brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide an overview of the innovative work being done in childhood studies. Together, these scholars argue for rethinking the academic seating arrangement in a way that acknowledges the centrality of childhood to the work of the humanities.

Insightful readings of three contemporary classics of nature writing by Janisse Ray, Terry Tempest Williams, and Linda Hogan are at the heart of Wohlpart's endeavor. His exploration of these literary works, based on deep anthropology and Native American philosophy, opens a pathway into a new way of thinking called sacred reason.

This is a collection of twelve stories about characters who are on the edge and under duress, individuals backed against a wall as they try to free themselves from their own limitations, habits, and destructive desires. Although many of these characters inhabit a world in which the bottom is about to fall out, they invariably find good reason - and courage - to take the next treacherous step.

The tie that binds men and women, that makes men do absurd things that they will very likely be sorry for later, is at the centre of this prize-winning collection of stories.

Ardizzone writes of the moments in our lives that shine in the dim expanse of memory with the intensity and vivid light of the evening news. Searching their pasts for clues to the present, searching the horizons of their days for love, the characters seek, and sometimes find, redemption in a world of uncertainty and brightly burning emotions.

Filled with sharp dialogue, engaging characters, and offbeat detail, the twelve stories collected in The Melancholy of Departure describe an outsider's world of longing, disillusion, and survival, where hope is found in unexpected places and understanding comes from unlikely sources.

The ten stories in Winter Money are set in rural Kentucky and West Virginia, in dim horse racing and river towns. The men in Andy Plattner's stories are tough and uncertain, the women independent and disappointed, but they are strong-willed and high-spirited, always believing there's a better life, just over the horizon, after the next race.

This collection of stories penetrates the essential nature of human relationships. Most of the narrators are young black women whose relationships with the men in their lives are ending. While dealing indirectly with race, the stories are more about the complexities of identity and alienation.

Features stories that include mechanical men - Industrial Age holdovers, outsiders wanting for relevance and respect, or overwhelmed people who confuse the certainties of one reality with the doubts of another - who are cut off in some way from contemporary culture.

A collection of five short stories demonstrating the powerful interconnection between parents and children, nostalgia and memory, and the collective emotional intimacies and transactions that configure human behaviour.

Demonically honest and sometimes violently funny, Living with Snakes tells of a world where love is at best a touch-and-go sort of thing, where sometimes men and women are bound together not so much by affection as by mutual loss, mutual pain.

This collection of seventeen funny stories explores the territory separating what we feel and what we express through a series of middle class characters who are drifting aimlessly through the their lives or plotting an exit from one life to another.

In Amina Gautier's Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don't, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier's stories explore the lives of young African Americans who might all be classified as "at-risk," yet who encounter different opportunities and dangers in their particular neighborhoods and schools and who see life through the lens of different family experiences.

With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names "Latinities." Milian's innovative study argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment.