Books published by University of Georgia Press

Offers a look at poetry, novels, speeches, sermons, and prayers by black women writers. This title discusses how such texts respond as a collective'literary witness' to the use of the Bible for purposes of social domination.

Argues that American historians of the early national period, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other "modern" issues to a greater degree than their successors in later generations acknowledge. This book challenges the entrenched notion that America's first generations of historians were romantics for a struggling young nation.

Remember Me is a short primer on the coast of Georgia and its unique African cultural heritage. Charles Joyner offers a rich picture of that culture's stories, songs, and traditions, as well as the nineteenth-century plantation life in which it endured.

Examines the relationship between two vitally important contemporary phenomena: a fixation on security that justifies global military engagements and the militarization of civilian life, and the dramatic increase in day-to-day insecurity associated with contemporary crises in health care, housing, incarceration, personal debt, and unemployment.

Explores the life and legacy of the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow. The author makes the case that the center's unique programs can serve as models for promoting responsible science in many countries of the world.

A spirited assessment of the state of civil rights history, by the leading scholars of the movement, this collection of original works refocuses attention on this bottom-up history and compels a rethinking of what and who we think are central to the movement.

With an eye toward Shakespeare's inherited resources for articulating anxieties rooted in philosophical doubt, Skulsky shows that in Hamlet, Measure for Measure, King Lear, and Othello the drama of doubt in search of an exit gives its own kind of urgency to the more familiar Shakespearean drama of action and motive.

A searching contribution to the study of what gurative language is and how it works, this book is a guide to the sophisticated and powerful artistry of the seventeenth-century English poets who have come to be known by the misleading name of "Metaphysicals."

Theological and psychological interpretations of Shakespeare's most problematic play have been pursued as complementary to each other. In this bold reading, Walter N. King brings twentieth-century Christian existentialism and post-Freudian psychological theory to bear upon Hamlet and his famous problems.

Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest-three of Shakespeare's final plays diverge from his usual standards. Mowat posits that by confronting the comic form with the tragic, the realistic with the artificial, the dramatic with the narrative, Shakespeare frees romance from the traditional bounds and makes meaning in a new way.

Hunter shows how Shakespeare uses the major attitudes toward God's judgment in creating Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. He notes that Shakespeare's different viewpoints are the heart of the tragedies themselves.

Hassel examines informed allusions to familiar Pauline and Erasmian Christian passages and themes in Shakespeare's plays. He argues that not only did Shakespeare's audience understand these allusions but also that these allusions led the audience to recognize their pertinence to the playwright's uniquely Christian comic vision.

A study of character and its representations on the modern stage. Within broad literary contexts, William E. Gruber addresses specific questions about the dramatis personae of the playwrights Gordon Craig, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Berhard, and Maria Fornes.

Gruber draws dramatic criticism beyond its traditional emphasis on the play's text toward a theory of theater that incorporates performance. The bare text is clothed in the cultural norms of both actor and audience in performance; in the conversion of words into action; in the actor's creation of his role; and in the audience's involvement.

At odds with the view that Shakespeare was a religious skeptic who only paid lip service to religious beliefs to pacify his less perceptive audience, Francis Fergusson investigates a relationship between Shakespeare and Dante, whom he sees as writing out of the same classical Christian heritage.

In this study Edmund Creeth discovers an intimate, unique, and previously unsuspected kinship between three Shakespearean tragedies-Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear-and the three oldest extant theological dramas about Mankynde-The Castell of Perseverance, Wisdom Who Is Christ, and The Pride of Life.

Cox argues that the thread connecting almost all of Shakespeare's comedies is a plot in which character change is presented metaphorically instead of realistically. Violating classical dramatic rules about the consistency of character, Shakespeare offers character changes that are improbable and unrealistic.

Fifteen original essays that move from structural and thematic subjects to matters of historical and cultural significance. Contributors cover a wide variety of the literary interests and figures of England from the Augustan Age until midcentury including the periodical, Gulliver's Travels, Defoe, Fielding, and the episodic novel as a genre.

Focuses on political, social, and aesthetic issues to reveal the influence of civic celebration on Renaissance theater. Ranging across Shakespeare's canon and including the work of his fellow playwrights, these twelve essays considers tournaments, royal entries, Lord Mayor's Shows, funeral processions progress entertainments, and court masques.

Thinking Through Translation shows us, with eloquent honesty, that translation is a delicate art and skill, and presents the trade as a way of attaining insight about history, the world, and oneself.

Addressing the concerns of both theorists and those on the national security front lines, this book presents a unified strategy for survival in an interconnected, ever-messier, more surprising cybered world, and examines the institutional adaptations required of defense, intelligence, energy, and other critical sectors for national security.

Offers a revealing ethnography of what is arguably the most dynamic district in one of the world's most dynamic cities. The book looks at the interplay between the neighbourhood's nighttime rhythms; its daytime economy of offices and malls; and Japan's ongoing internationalization and changing ethnic mix.

From the late nineteenth-century invention of southern tradition to early twenty-first-century folk artistic creativity, Wilson examines a wide range of cultural expression, including music, literature, folk art, media representations, and religious imagery.

Incorporating in-depth interviews, unique archival collections, and recently declassified national security documents, Zierler examines the movement to ban ecocide as it played out amid the rise of a global environmental consciousness and growing disillusionment with the containment policies of the cold war era.

Combining the nuanced perspective of an insider with the critical distance of a historian, Alexander Macaulay examines The Citadel's reactions to major shifts in postwar life, from the rise of the counterculture to the demise of the Cold War. The Citadel is widely considered one of the most traditional institutions in America and a bastion of southern conservatism. In Marching in Step Macaulay argues that The Citadel has actually experienced many changes since World War II--changes that often tell us as much about the United States as about the American South. Macaulay explores how The Citadel was often an undiluted showcase for national debates over who deserved full recognition as a citizen--most famously first for black men and later for women. As the boundaries regarding race, gender, and citizenship were drawn and redrawn, Macaulay says, attitudes at The Citadel reflected rather than stood apart from those of mainstream America. In this study of an iconic American institution, Macaulay also raises questions over issues of southern distinctiveness and sheds light on the South's real and imagined relationship with the rest of America.

This collection of articles, essays, and poems offers a survey of the work of the Agrarian writer John Donald Wade (1892-1963), who contributed to I'll Take My Stand. A brief biographical sketch outline's Wade's academic career and his founding of The Georgia Review.

Illustrated with one hundred five black and white photos, this work chronicles the International Grand Prize Race of the Automobile Club of America that was held in Savannah, Georgia, for the first time in November of 1908. Quattlebaum personally witnessed the big Fiats, Loziers, and Mercedes that roared around the turns in 1911.

This collection of essays grew out of a symposium commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of Georgia. The contributors are authorities in their respective fields who shed new light on the social, political, religious, and ethnic diversity of colonial Georgia.