Books published by University of Georgia Press

In settings as different as Honolulu, Hawaii, small-town Minnesota, and Taxco, Mexico, this collection of nine stories and a novella show blue-collar characters struggling to achieve the American Dream - and sometimes alienating friends and family as they try to upgrade their working-class pedigree.

Since the early 1990s, there has been a proliferation of memoirs by tenured humanities professors. Based on close readings of memoirs by such academics as Michael Berube, Cathy Davidson, Jane Gallop, bell hooks, Jane Tompkins, and Marianne Torgovnick, this title considers why so many professors write memoirs and what cultural capital they carry.

Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. The author draws on Edge's personal papers and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names 'Joan of Arc' and 'hellcat'.

From the beginning, Georgia women were instrumental in shaping the state, yet most histories minimize their contributions. This title features essays that include women of many ethnicities and classes who played an important role in Georgia's history, including Mary Latimer McLendon, Mildred Rutherford, and Martha Berry.

Set against the stark but seductive landscape of the American Southwest, the stories in All My Relations explore the inner landscape of mind and heart, where charting the simplest course is subject to a complex constellation of relationships.

This collection of stories describes a modern urban society in its extraordinary complexity, its absence of fixed values, and its resistance to easy understanding. Set mainly in California, they portray a world where dreams conflict with reality, where perception fills the space between truth and fiction, logic and emotion, fantasy, and disaster.

Through a compelling story about the conflict over a notorious Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, Correia examines how law and property are constituted through social struggle and suggests that violence is not the opposite of property but rather is essential to its operation.

Presents an introduction to southern environmental history. This book contains writings, which range in setting from the Texas plains to the Carolina Lowcountry, and addresses a multiplicity of topics, such as husbandry practices in the Chesapeake colonies and the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew.

Examines the twinned phenomena of phoniness and authenticity across the second half of the twentieth century - from adolescents like Holly Golightly and Holden Caulfield to sports agents like Jerry Maguire.

Focuses on one basic question of form - that of the series of narrative insertions - and then of necessity on one matter of content that is linked so closely with them that the two are almost inseparable, namely the concept of the family as the Urform (archetype) and metamorphosis of the types of human association.

An award-winning biography of a remarkably talented, enigmatic southern woman whose fiction about rural African Americans drew on her own emotional traumas and family scandals.

Explores the many pieces that support our natural environment. Whether describing caterpillar disguises, fish that produce antifreeze, the mutual reliance of rhinoceroses and Trewia trees, or the origins of tumbleweed, hit affirms the delicate and intricate biological relationships between species and encourages a deeper knowledge of our natural world.

Presents foundational texts in American wine making. This volume collects important writings on viticulture by Nicholas Herbemont (1771-1839), who is widely considered the finest practicing winemaker of the early United States.

Looks at masculinity and markets in the urban South. This work examines secret fraternal organizations in Antebellum Virginia to offer fresh insight into masculinity and the redefinition of social and political roles of white men in the South. It also looks at how dominant groups craft collective identities.

Contains more than 500 notes keyed to the ""2006 Harper Perennial Modern Classics"", the ""1986 Harper Perennial Library"", and the 1967 Bantam editions. This edition adds quotations and paraphrases drawn from criticism published since 1994. It includes more than fifty annotations that have been added and eighty annotations that have been expanded.