Books published by University of Georgia Press

In this study David Kirby addresses the making and consuming of literature by redefining the four components of the act of reading: writer, reader, critic and book. He covers a range of writers, from Emerson, Poe and Melville to James Dickey, Charles Wright, Richard Howard and Susan Montez.

This work is an institutional history of the federal War Manpower Commission and a social history of the southern labour force within the commission's province. It discusses conflicts between racial groups within labour unions, for example.

In recent years, formalist and deconstructive approaches to literary studies have been under attack, charged by critics with isolating texts as distinctive aesthetic or linguistic objects, separate from their social and historical contexts. Historicist and cultural approaches have often responded by simply reversing the picture, reducing texts to no more than superstructural effects of historical or ideological forces. In Writing Revolution, Peter J. Bellis explores the ways in which literature can engage with-rather than escape from or obscure-social and political issues.Bellis argues that a number of nineteenth-century American writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, saw their texts as spaces where alternative social and cultural possibilities could be suggested and explored. All writing in the same historical moment, Belliss subjects were responding to the same cluster of issues: the need to redefine American identity after the Revolution, the problem of race slavery, and the growing industrialization of American society.Hawthorne, Bellis contends, sees the romance as neutral territory where the Imaginary and the Actual-the aesthetic and the historical-can interpenetrate and address crucial issues of class, race, and technological modernity. Whitman conceives of Leaves of Grass as a transformative democratic space where all forms of meditation, both political and literary, are swept away. Thoreau oscillates between these two approaches. Walden, like the romance, aims to fashion a mediating space between nature and society. His abolitionist essays, however, shift sharply away from both linguistic representation and the political, toward an apocalyptic cleansing violence.In addition to covering selected works by Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau, Bellis also examines powerful works of social and political critique by Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller. With its suggestions for new ways of reading antebellum American writing, Writing Revolution breaks through the thickets of contemporary literary discourse and will spark debate in the literary community.

A philosophical, tough and often funny inquiry into 21st-century selfhood, this collection takes shape in the shadow of Dante's ""dark wood"". The poems are sonorous, sly and sexy. They are political in their address of gender through reference to pop songs, poems and personal experience.

This collection of poetry, Joshua McKinney's first, shows immense devotion to and passion for language in all its aspects. The poet attends to words and delights in the play of accidental connections and complications.

This collection of poems explores the pressures of convention, distraction, self-interest, privacy - any kind of buffer against experience that can be cultivated to protect oneself from damage.

This volume presents the story of midwife Mary Peterson, from her experience growing up within the traditional society of Akhiok to her work as a teacher, a community health aide, a mother, a grandmother, and an Alutiiq midwife and healer.

Ernest Vandiver was elected Governor of Georgia in 1958. Using primary sources and interviews with the Governor and his contemporaries, this is the story of Vandiver's life as a transitional figure in the political history of the state.

In this collection of essays, historians, political scientists and legal scholars examine significant instances in which legal reform produced something other than the foreseen result. Subjects addressed include: the intentions of the framers of the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

This volume assembles 78 stories from six residents of the eastern Kentucky mountain country. Based on stories rooted in European traditions from German fairy tales to Irish hero stories and Greek myths, the tales have been handed down through generations.

The 11 anthropologists, economists and researchers represented in this volume address what they consider to be the disparities of global capitalism and offer solutions to the effects that the burgeoning ""global marketplace"" has on some of today's struggling communities.

Concerned with the way in which women writers are represented, this collection of essays questions the current boundaries of literary periods and advocates a revised literary canon. It also examines the need for literary reforms considering differences in race, ethnicity, class and sexuality.

This story is about Ann Kimmage's experiences as a child of American communists who, in 1950, fled the US to avoid possible espionage charges. After travelling to Caechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, East Germany, and China they return to the US, the family tried, tested and changed.